Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

The heavy subject matter is the most fun stuff to work with. It's the meaty things, it's the things that you get to get stuck in.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Social studies was my favorite subject. I remember I portrayed Walter Mondale in a mock debate in my sophomore social studies class.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

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