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• I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

  Steve Harvey

  Creativity, Feuds, Guests

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• The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

  Hugh Hefner

  Girl, Baby, Moving

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• The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

  James Hillman

  Kids, Opposites, Ideas

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Thinking, Needs

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• It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ideas, Teeth, Red

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". Jewish World Review Column, www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

  Damian Lewis

  Independent, Class, Ideas

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• I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Citizens

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• When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

  Hilary Mantel

  Clothes, Should Have, Size

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.197, Macmillan

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• The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Ideas, Soul

  "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" by Richard B. Woodward, archive.nytimes.com. April 19, 1992.

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Fall

  "Jon Meacham: Covering Conflict". Interview with Randall Balmer, ircpl.org. October 28, 2009.

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• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Events, Should

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.

  Ezra Miller

  Thinking, Play, Long

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• I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Cinema, Television

  "Helen Mirren: UK is angry and cruel". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2010.

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• A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Memories, Real, Historical

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

  Steven Morrissey

  Beautiful, Children, Brave

  "Morrissey interview: Big mouth strikes again". Interview with Simon Armitage, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fire, Greatest Victory, Tactics

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• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Religious, Believe, Equality

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• I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

  Dolly Parton

  Dad, Smart, Writing

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• Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

  Jane Pauley

  Sound, Now And Then, Barbara

  "Jane Pauley Says Goodbye". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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• I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Secret, Narcissism

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• I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

  Chris Pine

  Father, Winning, Years

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• I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

  Zachary Quinto

  Lying, Character, Past

  "Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies". query.nytimes.com. October 24, 2010.

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• I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, People

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

  Lou Reed

  Challenges, Should, Listeners

  "I met Lou Reed - and he was charm personified" by Hanna Hanra, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2013.

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