In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

In a September 1976 interview with Playboy, Bowie said: " It's true — I am a bisexual.

: Human: It's true.

When one says ' It's true that it's raining ,' one asserts no more than ' It's raining.

' The function of statement ' It's true that ...' is to agree with, accept, or endorse the statement that ' it's raining.

They argue that sentences like " That's true ", when said in response to " It's raining ", are prosentences, expressions that merely repeat the content of other expressions.

In the same way that it means the same as my dog in the sentence My dog was hungry, so I fed it, That's true is supposed to mean the same as It's raining — if you say the latter and I then say the former.

It's true, I'm the worst celebrity ever.

Cermak replied to these with, " He doesn't like my name .... It's true I didn't come over on the Mayflower, but I came over as soon as I could ," which was a sentiment to which ethnic Chicagoans could relate and Thompson's slurs largely backfired.

It's also true that he lost the money on the way, and when he got there he swept rugs in a little store.

It's very hard to talk about pictures — should I say now that I like Metropolis because something I have seen in my imagination comes true, when I detested it after it was finished?

Most romantic comedies place phony obstacles in the way of true love, but Smith knows that at some level there's nothing funny about being in love: It's a dead serious business, in which your entire being is at risk.

It's believed that she was the mistress of Sieciech, the Count Palatine and true governor of the country.

* When Corwin first meets Eric in Nine Princes in Amber, Eric complains " It's true, that uneasy-lies-the-head bit.

" It's true, though rarely recognized in the control-freakery world of the military, that full spectrum dominance is impossible in the global information environment.

It's true as well that none of the men listed reported the alleged UFOs within the first quarter-century after the fact.

It's not true.

It's true that we've sold some of our lands.

He added, " It's just not true.

It's accessible and moving and true.

It's somebody else's true feeling.

It's absolutely not true.

The hypergeometric distribution can be used to determine this distribution over k. It's not straightforward why the doctor would know n and m, but not k. Perhaps n and m are dictated by the experimental design, while the experimenter is left blind to the true value of k.

* Tribute, 1980 (" It's All for the Best ," lyricist )

His definition of deconstruction is that ," It's possible, within text, to frame a question or undo assertions made in the text, by means of elements which are in the text, which frequently would be precisely structures that play off the rhetorical against grammatical elements.

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

An annual " It's a Wonderful Life " celebration that Capra attended in 1981, during which he said, " This is one of the proudest moments of my life ," was recounted in The New Yorker.

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

Lipscomb performed old songs like " Sugar Babe ," the first song he ever learned, to pop numbers like " Shine On, Harvest Moon " and " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ".

" The latter album featured a song titled " It's a Gas ," which punctuated an instrumental track with belches ( along with a saxophone break by an uncredited King Curtis ).

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

The president opened his talk by proclaiming that " It's great to be here in Nevada ," emphasizing the correct ' a ' – the crowd roared its approval when he light-heartedly noted, " You didn't think I'd get it right, did ya?

Among those released were " Kinky Love ", " Annabell of Mobile ", " It's for My Dad ," and " Indian Summer " ( with Hazlewood ).

" It's all about the brand ," Cogen said.

They decide to do nothing: " It's safer ," explains Estragon, before asking what Godot is going to do for them when he arrives.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

" It's a bad news, good news situation ," explained Tork.

It's worth mentioning, though, that in many of the later DFE cartoons, such as " Feather Finger " and " Daffy's Diner ," Daffy is portrayed as a more sympathetic character rather than the full-blown villain he is in cartoons like " Well Worn Daffy " and " Assault and Peppered.

" It's an improvement ," says Meier, adding that " the reason that wall was there has to do with traffic and noise.

" It's hard enough trying to get people to take animal rights seriously without PETA out there acting like a bunch of jerks ," one activist told writer Norm Phelps.

Clark campaigned on the slogans, " Let's get Canada working again ," and " It's time for a change-give the future a chance!

* Pièces grinçantes ( Paris: La Table ronde, 1956 ) – comprises " Ardèle, ou La Marguerite ," " La Valse des Toréadors ," " Ornifle, ou Le Courant d ' air ," and " Pauvre Bitos, ou Le Dîner de têtes ;" Ardèle, ou La Marguerite translated by Hill as Ardèle ( London: Methuen, 1951 ); La Valse des Toréadors translated by Hill as Waltz of the Toreadors ( London: Elek, 1953 ; New York: Coward-McCann, 1953 ); Ornifle, ou Le Courant d ' air translated by Hill as It's Later Than You Think ( Chicago: Dramatic, 1970 ); Pauvre Bitos, ou Le dîner de têtes translated by Hill as Poor Bitos ( London: Methuen, 1956 ).