For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you had, then that means that somehow the mythology you had was not only feeble and weak, but that you are ultimately a powerless people. That's a notion that, I think, that can't be accepted.
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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.
Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need to make between the notion of struggle and the notion of effort.
I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.
I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.