Recurring Themes Quotes

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  Salman Khan

  Evil, Triumph, Heroism

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• America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

  Don DeLillo

  Character, America, People

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.114, Vintage

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• The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Confusion

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• I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Weather, Together

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• Love's a recurring theme through my work.

  Tracy Chapman

  Theme, Recurring

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• I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

  Greg Kinnear

  Effort, Trying, Roles

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ordinary, Common, Existential

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

  Jewel

  Self Worth, Love Is, Self Love

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Years, Europe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, "Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!" I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

  Greg Kinnear

  People, Effort, Guy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever.  The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity.  You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Book, Creativity, Museums

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• The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

  Richard Rohr

  Talking, Goal, Empathy

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lost, Theme, Strongest

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• The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

  Richard Winters

  Self Esteem, People, Rejection

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• My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

  Billy Corgan

  Mother, Years, Four

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