Topics Quotes - Page 13

• I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Thinking, Reader

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that.

  Mirah

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.

  Mohammad Marandi

  War, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iran, Together, Embodiment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

  Harlan Coben

  Bigs, Certain, Raises

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Interview with Sara Nelson, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.

  Pablo Amaringo

  Ayahuasca, Perception, Realizing

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• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

  Barry Mazur

  Book, Unique, Views

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• This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

  Joseph Auslander

  Philosophy, Book, Blind Spots

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• Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dance, Beach

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 13, 2012

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• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Opportunity, Vocabulary

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

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• All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

  Julian Simon

  Thinking, Opinion, Life Is

  Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.55, Princeton University Press

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• A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?

  E. Jean Carroll

  Sexy, Dog, Couple

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• Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

  Chuck D

  Reality, Hard Times, People

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• Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?

  Ben Shapiro

  Book, Waiting, Wikipedia

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2012

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• I believe the more knowledgeable you are as a horse owner, the better leader you are and the more you’ll enjoy your partnership with your horse. That’s why I was excited to see the editors of MyHorse Daily offer these free guides packed with information on topics from deworming programs to safe fencing options. Go ahead, take a look mate, no matter your horse lifestyle there’s something for everyone.

  Clinton Anderson

  Horse, Believe, Editors

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• IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Writing, Becoming, Principles

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.43

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• To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

  George Tenet

  Patience, Thoughtful, Iraq

  Speech of CIA Director George Tenet at Georgetown University, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

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• Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

  Jen Lancaster

  Book, Cat, Taste

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• The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Play, Roles, Should

  Jonny Wilkinson (2011). “Jonny: My Autobiography”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Running, Moving, Issues

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of the day doesn't make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That's why it will be a part of Nintendo's strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it.

  Satoru Iwata

  Years, Hot, Entering

  "Nintendo Jumps Online". www.ign.com. May 13, 2002.

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• Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Osmosis, Design

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• Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Love, Hate, Character

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• When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

  Allan Sloan

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

  Michael Gurian

  Writing, Men, Emotional

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