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• We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

  Freddie Mercury

  Music, Rocks, Groups

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• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Morning, Heart, Dark

  "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.

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• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Fleas

  Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)

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• There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Book, Adults

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• There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

  John Lennon

  Music, Variation, Notes

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Book, Philosophical

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.130, NavPress

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

  Caitlin Moran

  Islands, Space, Imagination

  "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  History, Political, Conflict

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• Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not be important. When, however, we come to the question of man's Being, this is not something we can simply compute by adding together those kinds of Being which body, soul, and spirit respectively possess--kinds of being whose nature has not as yet been determined. And even if we should attempt such an ontological procedure, some idea of the Being of the whole must be presupposed.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Ideas, Soul

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• There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Purpose, Fiction, Certain

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.308, University of Illinois Press

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• I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

  Claude Monet

  Ideas, Brain, Settling

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• Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with the tools they need to live lives of security and dignity. On this International Human Rights Day, let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Live Life, School, Rights

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• While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling.

  Meg Wolitzer

  War, Track, Feelings

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• I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.

  John Wayne

  Hate, Simple, Nuance

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• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Fairness, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Army, Night, Light

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• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

  Todd Gitlin

  America, Together, Innocence

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• The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

  Morgan Brittany

  Uplifting, Dirty, Trying

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• Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mean, Men, Law

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• The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Song, School

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• The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Want, Photographer, Obsession

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Mystery

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• They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boys, Men, Land

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2630, eBookIt.com

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• I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

  Danny Elfman

  Knowing, Challenges, Would Be

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