Quotes and Sayings About Topics
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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
-- Alan Rickman -
I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
-- Albert BrooksSource : "Isaiah Mustafa on Advertising Celebrity, Humility and His Super Bowl Pick". Interview with Irina Slutsky, adage.com. September 22, 2010.
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The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...
-- Ama Ata AidooSource : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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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.
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According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 37), 1968.
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I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
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Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
-- Bob Beauprez -
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There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
-- Bruce Feiler -
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.
-- Charles Eliot NortonSource : John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press
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This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
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Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
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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 PettigrewSource : Le Parisien, May, 2003.
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I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.
-- Danai Gurira -
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
-- David Chalmers -
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
-- David Javerbaum -
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.
-- Del Howison -
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I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
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I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.
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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
-- Elayne BooslerSource : "Yuo Cant Take Away My Gun Rites, Idiott" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.
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Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1977). “The hearthstone of my heart”, Doubleday Books
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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
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Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
-- Evan Davis -
Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
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In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
-- George Stigler -
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness
-- Glenn CloseSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.