Topics Quotes - Page 12

• I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe, Environment, Position

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• I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

  Katey Sagal

  Husband, Gun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• [in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.

  James Q. Wilson

  Writing, Land, Ideas

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

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• I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

  Steve Martin

  Imagination, Want, Littles

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• I like showing different types of comedy - showing that I could tell a story, or showing that I could do a one-liner, showing I could do stuff about music - so just trying to be versatile and talking about different topics.

  Hannibal Buress

  Talking, Trying, Different

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• I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it's in the news. That's the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

  Doug Stanhope

  Strong, Guy, Trying

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• I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Race, Self

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• Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

  Kate Burridge

  Deceiving, Used, Disguise

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• Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

  Dean Wareham

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Fun, Kenya, Sticky

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.

  Aldis Hodge

  Fun, Elephants, Rooms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Dream, Way, Type

  "Even if It Kills Me". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. March 16, 2016.

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• Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Black, Different, Way

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Issues, Talking, Islam

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our relationships are simply not discussed. The topics are on climate change or any other issues they want us to agree with them on. But they never discuss how we could develop an equal relationship. They should stop using pompous orchestrated summits and begin a serious dialogue with small meetings.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Issues, Unions, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

  James Hillman

  Writing, Views, Two

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

  Chad Harbach

  Book, Strive, Novel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.

  Astra Taylor

  Book, Grateful, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Everyday Things

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, Parent, Homeschooling

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers

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• This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Want, Masturbation

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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Psychology, Healthy

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

  Hal Holbrook

  Hurt, School, America

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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