We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports.
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.
The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.
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.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
