Subjects Quotes - Page 4

• Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

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• In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Order, Moral, Argument

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496

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• The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Important

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• ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Cat, Thinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Never Fear, Discussing

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

  David Salle

  Tree, Littles, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The American people are very, very ready for a woman president. They're far ahead of the politicians. I always thought it would be much easier to elect a woman president of the United States than Speaker of the House, because the people are far ahead, as I say, of the electeds, on the subject of a woman being president.

  Nancy Pelosi

  People, House, President

  "What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.salon.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.

  Robert Draper

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

  Alice Neel

  Thinking, Paint, Theory

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• I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Dream, Writing, Order

  "Watch ‘Inception’ In Real Time & Ten Key Quotes From Chris Nolan’s Interview With Brother Jonathan" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

  Matt Frewer

  School, Computer

  "Matt Frewer Takes Eureka to the Max". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. August 29, 2006.

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• All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Character, Issues, Important

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 24, 2009.

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• Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

  Lemn Sissay

  Rain, Home, Wind

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• Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Marijuana, Opportunity, Media

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• Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Influence, Accepting, Affected

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Marketing, Fields, Study

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.154, Princeton University Press

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• For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

  Joe Rogan

  Silly, Thinking, White

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• Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

  Bill Vaughan

  Innovation, Degrees, Prejudice

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• Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Biographies, Subordinates

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.

  Gore Vidal

  Heterosexuality Is, Practice, People

  "American psyche". www.independent.co.uk. October 7, 2000.

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• I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Icy, Used

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.143, Vintage

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• Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

  Clarence Darrow

  Class, Poverty, Causes

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• the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

  Henry Fielding

  Skills, Excellence, Entertainment

  Henry Fielding (1992). “Tom Jones”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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