Quotes with subjects

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  • Caleb Deschanel The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Susan Sontag The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Butler Yeats The preference for certain subjects in any art is a sign of compact between the artist and society.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Richard Feynman The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Brigid Brophy To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Albert Bandura Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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