Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea."
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Notion
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Martin Luther
Theologian
"I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow."
Emily Bronte
Poet, Novelist
"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too."
Stendhal
Novelist
"Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us."
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"It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion."
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"You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about."
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"Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones."
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"The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions."
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"The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight."
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"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
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"If you subscribe to the notion of God as being separate from you, than you will always be lost, because you can't even trust in your own untrustworthiness."
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"I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am."
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"I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving."
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"New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion."
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"For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive"
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"She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women."
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"Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them."
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"The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
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"I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves."
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"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?"
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"Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic."
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"Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?"
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"I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody."
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"I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent."
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