Contemporary Quotes - Page 2

• I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

  Eberhard Weber

  Music, Stuff, Lovers

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• But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

  Juice Newton

  Country, Adults, Attention

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• If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

  Eleanor Clift

  Hypocrisy, Privacy, Ends

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• The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Pages, Cold

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• I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

  Rose Tremain

  Character, Way, Difficult

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• The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Time, Lasts, Speak

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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• I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Views, Years

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• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Attention, Paid

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• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Revenge, War, Intelligent

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Innovation, Stranger, Public Speaking

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Criticism, Green

  1933 All I Survey,'On Jonathan Swift'.

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• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hierarchy, Taught, Communism

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• I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

  Francesca Annis

  Technology, Islands, Zanzibar

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• Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

  Arthur Erickson

  Expression, Lines, Source

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• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Artist, Interest

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.26, Random House

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• Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Europe, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

  Bill Paxton

  Twists, Popular Song, Film

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• I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

  Genevieve Bujold

  Years, Worry, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Artist, Expression, Style

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• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  Edmund White

  Writing, America, Desire

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

  David Foster Wallace

  Talking, Differences, Might

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Historical Novels, Venture, Modern

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• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

  Anita Diament

  Practice, Community, Written

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