Topics Quotes - Page 19

• The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Talking, Form, Refrain

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• Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.

  Gary Gutting

  Plato, Teaching, Philosophical

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• That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, Political, News

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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• There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Reading, Years

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

  Howard Gardner

  Book, Abandoned, Interest

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

  Lisa Loeb

  Children, Sound, Albums

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• Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

  Bill Budge

  Thinking, Hot, Robots

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• I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

  Sam Brownback

  Thinking, Knitting, People

  "Judiciary Panelists Debate Miers". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2005.

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• Most public persons do not market themselves as cheating lowlives - certainly not politicians (okay, maybe a few rock stars.) But most people try to present a somewhat appealing persona, which is why sex is still a hot topic.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Cheating, Sex, Stars

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Debate, Hypothesis, Props

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• I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

  Jack Dorsey

  Keys, Organization, Ideas

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• I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Differences, People

  PRWeek, January 30, 2007.

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• THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Discovery, Opinion

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.79

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• I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a huge cinema fan. I was taking my time; I got offered a lot of scripts and things along the way but until Burlesque showed up at my doorstep, it really spoke to me. I have a collection of burlesque books at home that I've had for years. I've always been intrigued and fascinated with the topic, the beauty and the art of it and the comedic value of it. I think it's just a beautiful, empowering thing for women.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beautiful, Art, Strong

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• My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Challenges, Events

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• Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

  Evan Davis

  Psychology, Hot, Moments

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• Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

  David Chalmers

  Psychology, Overcoming, Study

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• If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Ideas, Achievement, Events

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• I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

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• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  Ted Nelson

  Moving, Computer, Relevant

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• I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Illustration, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

  Will Ferguson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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• There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

  Edward Tufte

  Long, Slides, Fit

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• I worked on USA Today as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Hands, Usa, Looks

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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