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• It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Heart, New Orleans, Cities

  "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

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• I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Thinking, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.19, Heron Dance Press

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• The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

  Leland Ryken

  Priorities In Life, Firsts, Puritan

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.299, Harper Collins

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• I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Trying, Come Up, Videogame

  "Sensei Speaks". Interview with Peer Schneider and Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. January 29, 1999.

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• Human life is fiction's only theme.

  Eudora Welty

  Fiction, Life Is, Human Life

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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• Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we'll miss something important. There is a growing movement to step out and create 'quiet zones' to disconnect from technology and unwind, giving ourselves time to stop and be still. Color choices follow the same minimalistic, 'en plein air' theme, taking a cue from nature rather than being reinvented or mechanically manipulated. Soft, cool hues blend with subtle warm tones to create a soothing escape from the everyday hustle and bustle.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Technology, Color, Hustle And Bustle

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• I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

  David Rockwell

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

  Dhani Harrison

  Song, Racist, Taco Bell

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people, especially gospel music programs. I had become alert to the necessity of creating song titles, themes, and plots, and frequently people would call me and say, 'Turn your radio on, Albert, they're singing one of your songs on such-and-such a station.' It finally dawned on me to use their quote, 'Turn your radio on,' as a theme for a religious originated song, and this was the beginning of 'Turn Your Radio On' as we know it.

  Albert E. Brumley

  Song, Religious, Creating

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• If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.

  Larry Towell

  Thinking, Land, People

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• Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

  Anita Baker

  Song, Doe, Albums

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• I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

  Bo Burnham

  Simple, Trying, Stuff

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• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, War, Lying

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• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Haunting, Novel

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• Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Topography, Fear Of Death

  Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.

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• I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Growing, Photographer

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• People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

  Iggy Azalea

  Sports, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Real, Meaning Of Life, Literature

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• If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Writing, Hatred

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.8, Schocken

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• I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

  Ennio Morricone

  Animal, Sound, Coyotes

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

  Peter Turnley

  Photography, People, Mind

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• Love's a recurring theme through my work.

  Tracy Chapman

  Recurring Themes, Recurring

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• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Regret, Kids, Abortion

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

  Clarence Day

  Song, Men, Generations

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'Humpty-Dumpty and Adam'.

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• I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

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