Topics Quotes - Page 18

• History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

  James W. Loewen

  Important, Awful, Wondrous

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Eye, Tears, Hell

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• The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Fun, Giving, Wikipedia

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• The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Profound, Important, Trying

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• My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Father, Believe, Writing

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• I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe, Environment, Position

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• I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

  Katey Sagal

  Husband, Gun, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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