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Quotes About Subject

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
~ Leslie Cockburn
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
~ Patrick Leahy
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
~ John Poindexter
The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
~ Salmon P. Chase
As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.
~ David Douglass
It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.
~ John Sherman Cooper
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
~ Sally Ride
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
~ Stanley Tucci
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
~ Barney Frank
I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
~ Joe Dante
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
~ John Barton
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
~ Ian Hislop
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
~ Conrad Hall
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
~ Laurence Housman
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~ Robert Delaunay
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
~ Maria Monk
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
~ Maria Monk
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
~ Annie Leibovitz
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
~ Annie Leibovitz
The style depends on the subject.
~ Mohsen Makhmalbaf
What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
~ Mariel Hemingway
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
~ Kate Millett
I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.
~ Amber Frey