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The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.
Henry Louis Gates

Hope, Crazy, Live

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.
Janice Dickinson

Extreme, Disturbing, Makeover

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy

Wish, Might, Rise

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
Sandra Bullock

After, Old, Times

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
Neal Boortz

Good, Freedom, Someone

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris

Peace, Happen, Able

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
Glenn Beck

Money, Alone, Dad

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David Ogilvy

Doubt, Night, Big

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
James L. Brooks

Sexy, Everybody, Marketing

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
Jonathan Kozol

True, America, Strange

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering

Working, Committee

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
Francesca Annis

Love, Time, Moving

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
Julia Roberts

Women, Society, Live

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
Shirley MacLaine

Love, Away, Room

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Great, Down

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
Vera Wang

Life, Success, Learn

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch

Sad, Past, Human

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
Max Lucado

Life, Experience, Nothing

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.
Joseph Barbera

Help, Laugh, Anyone

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Work, Seems, Simply

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Jessica Lange

Generosity, Virtue, Opposed

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

Success, Wise, Children

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz

War, Reality, Country

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.
John Podhoretz

Matter, Nation, Group

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Ethel Barrymore

Face, Event, Garbo

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
James Cash Penney

Business, Fear, Nothing

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
Doris Lessing

Girl, End, British

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing

Love, Away, Writer

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
Elizabeth Bowen

Simply, Novel, Surface

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch

Human, Person, Creativity

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