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• I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.

  eL Seed

  Roots, Trying, Identity

  "eL Seed’s New Home". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.

  David Papineau

  Motivation, Moving, Philosophical

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about, but I think those that are extremists, the way they are taught or the way, as I'd like to say, "brain-washed." they're not of sound mind, They're of a different mind.

  Charlie Benante

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.

  Brooke Waggoner

  Past, Albums, Addresses

  Interview With Tam Sackman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

  Sheri Fink

  Choices, Trying, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that the work that's left to be done - and I see the end in sight at this point - is to just let go and stop talking about it. It's definitely 'stop talking about the whole size thing.' I don't go to my girlfriend's house and say, 'Hey, I'm your big friend, let's talk about big things.' It's not a topic of conversation within my friend group - I'm ready for society, Hollywood, the press, magazines, everyone, to just catch up and say, 'These women are just like the women we've been using for so long. Let's just throw them into the mix and stop talking about it.'

  Ashley Graham

  Letting Go, Girlfriend, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm happy to start on one topic and end on another one entirely, as long as it's funny.

  Dave Barry

  Long, Ends

  "Dave Barry's Mix of Over the Top Humor, Seriousness Reflects 'Insanity' of Miami". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2013.

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• At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.

  Gail Collins

  Daughter, Book, School

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

  John Ridley

  Different, Want, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail; if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

  "Telltale Hurt". Live chat, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Dealing with all the questions once the book is out and unchangeable, forces you to permanently give opinions about - in this case - sensible, challenging topics that you are basically only half the expert you would have to be if you wanted to explain yourself in a trustworthy, intelligent and helpful manner.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Intelligent, Giving

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that topic, or convert me. I think there are a lot of people who just want to hear me embrace e-books or finally say, 'OK, I bought an iPad and it's awesome!" There are a lot of people who would get a kick out of it, that's for sure.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Thinking, Ipads

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

  Norman Mailer

  Falling In Love, Book, Love You

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• I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a government function, I talk about government related topics. If I attend a Railway's function I talk about railways, if water then water, if water bodies, then water bodies. My focus is on governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Water, Focus

  "PM Modi's exclusive interview with Times Now: Full transcript". Interview with Arnab Goswami, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 28, 2016.

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• As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

  John Hodgman

  Sports, Knows

  "John Hodgman’s area of ignorance: 1 topic the self-proclaimed expert on everything knows nothing about". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. Nobember 10, 2009.

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• I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  War, Reading, I Love Him

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

  Howard Coble

  Military, Years, People

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• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Talking, Years, Particular

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• There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

  Trey Parker

  People, Facts, Tvs

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

  Mickey Kaus

  Writing, Thinking, Development

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• Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

  Steven Pinker

  Giving, Psychology, Meaning Of Life

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• I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

  Margaret Cho

  Appreciate, Suffering, Important

  "'Drop Dead Diva' Q&A: Brooke Elliott and Margaret Cho on how TV -- and comedy -- affect women's body image". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Fields, Academic

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