The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we’d sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
Even men used to hide their marriages because they used to feel people will not like them anymore. It’s the industry which has the false notion that an actor or an actress, if married, is not desirable to the audience.
When I heard of the ‘garden bridge’ idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That’s what struck me – not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I’ve gone on. I certainly don’t feel I need his approval, although maybe that’s because I’m confident that I’ve got it.
I’ve gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn’t live that way. I am just a person.
In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something – our point of origin, our roots, the home country – is out there.
It’s fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
During the pilot, director Len Wiseman and I discussed how Lucifer views humanity, and we can came up with this notion that he sees them as lab rats.
Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I’m going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that’s only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.
I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that’s what I want to do.
I’ve never encountered homophobia in casting from the studios or networks – not once, not ever. Where you encounter it is with the agents and the managers, they’re the ones who have an outdated notion of the price an actor might pay if it’s discovered that they’re LGBTQ.
Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it’s choppy: it’s filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I’m forever darting from one side of the room to the other.
When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
Earlier, the notion was such that TV actors are overexposed and that they can’t do films, but now it’s not like that.
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries – the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right attitude, we might become better, smarter versions of ourselves.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation… Bin Laden’s actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.
What I hope ‘Mastry’ ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can’t be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don’t have access to.
Gollum was so interesting to me because he’s morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.
There was a notion that I could do only niche films like ‘Yevade Subramanyam’ or ‘Krishna Gaadi’… I wanted to break that and draw in a larger audience so that next time I do a so-called niche film, more people might come out to watch it.
Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor… The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell’s notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we’re close to that.
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I’m really glad I grew up there. It’s where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
It’s too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, ‘Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn’t even have this thing that I really wanted.’
I’ve always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it’s because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion.
The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don’t behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion – famously drawn on a napkin – that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.
The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.
I am not married, no. I wasn’t really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.
I’m coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
I don’t believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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.
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type. Honestly, I did not get into a lot of bar brawls – but I was always willing to. About the only thing missing from my story is that I haven’t had a full knock-down fight in the middle of the Polo Lounge.
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that’s not of your choosing simply because you’re out-voted.
The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people’s expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple’s announcement.
