Subjects Quotes - Page 21

• You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Real, Writing, Learning

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• Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Thinking, Intellectual, Technique

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• When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Littles, Gender, Dividing

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• I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hate, Animal, Meditation

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Ann Curry: 'I don't like a lot of attention.'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 3, 2011.

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• The fantastical images in my works are descriptive in a different way - a metaphorical way - that removes you from reality. Then, this visually removed point of view allows you to deal with a very heavy subject.

  Signe Baumane

  Reality, Views, Way

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Democracy, Different

  "Russian President Putin on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

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• There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.

  Russell Simmons

  Sex, Artist, Reflection

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.

  Steven Spielberg

  Needs, Matter, Able

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• Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Play, Momentum

  Source: www.rationalwalk.com

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• It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

  Michael Pollan

  Disappointment, Reform, Attention

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fun, Thinking, Issues

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• When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Drama, War, Character

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Book, People, Fake

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Book, Beer, Names

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Sex, Men

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• Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

  Joan Robinson

  Teacher, Errors, Long

  "Economic Philosophy". Book by Joan Robinson, p. 79 (2006 edition), 1962.

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• As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.

  Linda Sunshine

  Divorce, Over You, Black

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• The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Writing, Men, Media

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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• Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Sex, Children, Writing

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• The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Creativity, Individuality

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Topics, Portraits, Assuming

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Eye, Self, Lost

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.

  Richard Mant

  Errors, Seduction, Opinion

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