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I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's… — Richard Ben Cramer Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of… — Laraine Day Copy Share Image
Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
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If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior.… — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
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