Topics Quotes - Page 9

• A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Voice, Guy, Offensive

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• Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Reality, America

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Two, Special

  "Q&A: Bill Gates: Lessons Learned". Interview with Ina Fried, www.cbsnews.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

  Ben Parr

  Real, Space, Talking

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• There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Loss, People, Secret

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.180, U of Nebraska Press

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• Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Fashion, Fighting, Laughing

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• ...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Philosopher, Boring, Seems

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• Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

  George Edward Moore

  Cities, Taverns, Noble

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• Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

  Michael Hersch

  Interesting, Given, Consensus

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• There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Creativity, Self Confidence

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• If somebody praises you; change the topic!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Praise, Ifs

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• In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

  Lynda Barry

  Hate, Swear To God, Intestines

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• Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

  Rachel Bloom

  Voice, People, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

  Christine Sneed

  People, Fame, Interest

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

  Christine Sneed

  Writing, Historical, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Thinking, Like Love, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.

  Dan Mangan

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Fashion, Teaching, Writing

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• We`re not in agreement on all topics. I had a conversation with Mr. [Donald] Trump that was open and constructive.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Agreement, Trump, Conversation

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.

  Brad Williams

  People, Firsts, Different

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I'm constantly watching satirical news programs, and just - I never want to be in a situation where someone could yell out a topic and I will have absolutely no opinion on it whatsoever, or just not even know it exists.

  Brad Williams

  News, Want, Opinion

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.

  Angel Grant

  America, Addiction, Car

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• I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Writing, Mean

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I think about every song is pretty much raw emotion - even if it's not specifically about topic there's songs like "All I Know Is Pain" and "Green Piece of Paper".

  Styles P

  Song, Pain, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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