Topics Quotes - Page 6

• I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, Father, Son

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• I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Running, Long, Silence

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• If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

  Alan Rickman

  Talking, Los Angeles, Conversation

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

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• The switch that I'd like to throw on is the one that says, "Look, you're a human being whose mind is every bit as active as anybody else's. Your experiences are just as real." For that matter, even if they're even if they're crazy, they're valid. They occurred in this world so they're valid topics for literature.

  George Saunders

  Crazy, Real, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong.
  If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.

  Jamie Whyte

  Sex, Believe, Good Man

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• Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.

  Ian Stewart

  Education, Teaching, School

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• The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Hiding, Lost

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• Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

  Alfred Marshall

  Book, Simple, Doctrine

  Alfred Marshall (2015). “The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890”, p.82, Springer

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• Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.

  Akon

  Song, Artist, Rapper

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• I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Thinking, Issues, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  Felix Adler

  Together, Admitting, Serious

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• The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

  Alexandra Paul

  Children, Issues, Quality

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• A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.

  Jens Spahn

  Numbers, Upset, Debate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Trying

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!

  Tom Peters

  Passion, Issues, Care

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• It's funny to hear how much certain people resist the lip ring. Sometimes I'll do a piece on an important topic and all the YouTube comments will be about the lip ring. I don't really have a good answer for why I got the lip ring. I just wanted it! But I've had it for a million years. I got my lip pierced when I was like 15.

  Cara Santa Maria

  Years, People, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

  Michelle Rhee

  Growing Up, Numbers, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.

  Michael Dell

  Running, Loss, Cash Flow

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• Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Men, People, Wells

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• There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

  Buck Henry

  Mean, People, Imagination

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• Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.

  Suze Orman

  Sex, Successful, Race

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• There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume that their teachers will regard those topics as 'stupid.' No area of life is stupid to someone who takes it seriously. If you follow your affections you will write well and will engage your readers.

  William Zinsser

  Teacher, Stupid, Writing

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• For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

  Umberto Eco

  Years, Long, Criticism

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Asking, Answers, Sample

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• All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

  Gwen Ifill

  Party, Hands, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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