When you’re an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you’re truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
I’d like to do a film in Canada, but it’s too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there’s too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we’ve gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.
I think music is a very subjective topic, maybe I can like something that the other person cannot.
I think people who speak and write about climate change and environmental degradation need to convey how interesting and important this topic is, because I’m not sure people will feel empowered to help if they don’t feel engaged and called to action.
You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you’re laughing at the right part of it, you’re not mocking the things that shouldn’t be mocked.
In my classroom, I would start my lessons with a quick review of an old topic. Then, I would introduce a new topic. Finally, I would give my students a problem to solve on their own, one that would reinforce what I’d just taught.
It’s been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it’s about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
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.
I don’t know how other people have a topic or have a goal when making a song, like, ‘Let’s write about this, or let’s write about that.’ It’s kind of difficult for me. Personally, I like vibing out and freestyling.
Mentioning the word ‘menstruation’ has always been a taboo in India. People always shy away from talking about menstruation hygiene, and the awareness about the topic is very dismal.
People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That’s even more concentrated at the top.
I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.
At a person-to-person level, I think that there’s always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
You can’t get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it’s just the icing on the cake.
It’s like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
I don’t really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It’s a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can’t just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.
I think hydration is an important topic. Drinking plenty of fluids is especially important for athletes.
Most people, they’re dug in. ‘Michael Jordan is the best player, and there’s nothing LeBron can do.’ A lot of people dug in that LeBron is whiny and he complains, he jumped teams, he wants all the best players. And once you have your mind made up on a particular topic, there’s no moving you off of that.
Before there was even an official naming of the 3DS, or before it was even decided that there would be 3-D capabilities, Mr. Iwata had brought up the topic of a new portable gaming system, and with that, the request to create a new title for that system… The topic of Kid Icarus came up.
Everybody wants to do ‘The View.’ It’s this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see what they were talking about. If a political topic was on their radar, I used it as ammunition with the president or the White House staff.
I truly believe heavy metal has gone south. Too many people are focusing on, will the songs be on the radio, will the shirt be in Hot Topic?
The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you’re going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it’s the main stuff.
I may be a dreamer, but I think monetary economics should be a hot topic.
Well, as a songwriter, it’s really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It’s a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it’s the most popular topic to ever write about.
I am just always trying to pay attention to how to communicate things that may not always be the hot topic issues and ways they can be entertaining and engaging. That’s what I think has always been my passion, even if it comes to the type of music that I do.
Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.
I feel like it’s always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic ever. It’s best when you just find the person interesting for no apparent reason.
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I’m obsessed.
I don’t want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It’s a very complicated topic, and if I have written a number of books they are always on topics that I think I know something about.
I’m interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that’s a topic I’ve been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.
When I select a topic, it’s usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.
Learning isn’t meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never ‘master’ a topic simply by taking a class.
If a topic hits me, I’ll start going on it. But you can’t force it.
It’s definitely a sensitive topic to discuss, but I have felt, since I signed with the WWE, I was in a unique position to reestablish how Arabs were perceived in the WWE and western media.
That the CDU has different political views on the topic of redistribution, on the topic of uniform social standards… than the French have, that is nothing new.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
Whenever my family brought up the topic of my marriage, I’d joke that I would marry only a princess.
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
It’s a very funny topic, missing weight and getting title shots. I think the punishments should be more severe, but I don’t know.
It’s funny because I think a lot of it is simply… We’ve never considered ourselves satirists, but because we’re on Comedy Central and because we’re South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
The main topic I’m always talking about is equality, and I get that it’s politics, but it shouldn’t be. It should be the most normal thing ever. There’s bullying and discrimination about the colour of your skin, your religion. And it must end.
There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.
I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it’s probably my favorite topic of conversation.
No matter what poker book you read or poker show you watch, the topic of position will invariably be discussed and its importance stressed.
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Sex is a must topic. Even every Bollywood movies has such highlighted content.
My dad was my hero. He was part of the D-Day landings and came back to Reading in 1945 – I was born in 1946 – so the house was full of soldiers who’d been to war and that was obviously the main topic.
As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller – documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.
