Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don’t make films where I’m a massive fan.
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its 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 motives.
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
Call me radical, but I’ve always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public opinions: freedom of expression, and attacks on journalists.
We’re looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
I’ve always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn’t until I went to architecture school, though, that I really loved school work.
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most – not to the students, but to everyone else.
In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there’s a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.
There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the ‘Lady’, and sadly, life isn’t like that.
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I’m attracted to aren’t essentially commercial.
My aim is for every song to have a purpose – for you to be able to say, ‘This song is about this.’ But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
I can’t speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don’t like to read essays on literature; I don’t like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
MySpace News is designed to let users decide what’s most relevant to them, and we’ve given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.
You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That’s the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it’s difficult. There’s part of you that doesn’t want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you’re surrendering.
My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have – and then go around saying: ‘Actually, I’d also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?’ That would be ridiculous.
That’s my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
I didn’t mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
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.
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally ‘male’ subjects, but they are outstanding in the field – like Margaret MacMillan.
I never planned my movies. I never selected subjects to win the National Award. I did films that made the masses happy.
There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report ‘Generation STEM,’ high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys’.
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don’t gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.
It’s important that comedians talk about difficult and dangerous subjects; you have to be very careful that you don’t just hear the subject heading and think, oh, this is bad, they shouldn’t be talking about that. You have to hear what’s being said.
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn’t a question of want, it’s a question of need.
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn’t doing this I’d be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.
Although measuring omega-3 levels in the blood seems like it would be an objective and accurate indicator of fish oil intake compared to using the subjects’ reported dietary intake, this test does not accurately reflect long-term dietary intake.
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that – even if it can’t be quantitatively measured as other subjects – it’s as fundamental to all education.
I really love picking up subjects where people say, ‘How is this going to work?’ and trying to find a way to make it work because every story needs to be told.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
We’re kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we’re in.
With ‘Decoded,’ the goal is to just keep pushing forward and challenging ourselves to tackle important subjects in creative and funny ways.
A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It’s okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn’t okay when those novelists don’t outshine their bland, average subjects.
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
I have been thinking of many subjects to work around football, but nothing has inspired me. ‘Sports’ is a good subject. But, nothing has inspired me to make a film.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
It’s very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.
I’m not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I’m always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.
