Notion Quotes - Page 23

• Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

  Karen Karbo

  Fun, Vacation, Two

  Karen Karbo (2008). “How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I think about Dischord. There's been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of "overlords" of the scene. Some people have felt 'they are too cool for us,' or 'they won't put this out,' etc. All we're doing is our own work, our own thing. That's all we've ever done. Our work.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, People, Etc

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.

  Robert Barry

  Thinking, Mind, Different

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been some that aren't - critical. I think they are extremely - the people that wrote them really don't understand what they are looking at quite frankly or have a very preconceived notion of what conceptual art should be or where I am at or the fact that I may change what I have done from what I did 20 years ago. But there is always some reason that they just sort of get it wrong. And so it certainly doesn't affect my work.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Degrees, Foreign Policy

  "Reps. Barney Frank & Ron Paul on Military Spending". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks and he reads and he becomes the head of the American Zionist movement after having previously been a secular Jew in this amazing intellectual evolution.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Loyalty, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.slate.com

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• A lot of unpredictable things happened in the Republican party, but I think the notion that we're gonna demonize Donald Trump or we're gonna mischaracterize him is completely unfair.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Party, Thinking, Unpredictable Things

  Source: gawker.com

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• My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.

  Ralph Stanley

  Mother, Real, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

  Matthea Harvey

  Photography, Class, Trying

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Real, Light, Air

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Mean, Trying, Casting

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stars, Father, Moving

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Medicine, Media

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

  Steve Carell

  Hate, Character, Thinking

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. July, 2013.

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• Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Needs, Opera

  "Rufus Wainwright on Passion, Opera and Taking Care of the Earth". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

  Jay-Z

  Past, Years, Stories

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• It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Impact, Profound

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Large Family

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.

  Graham Hancock

  Drug, Abuse, Important

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2012.

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• I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Different, Felt

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thinking, Years, Pounds

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

  Joe Biden

  Rights, Trials, Bills

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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