Contemporary Quotes - Page 7

• Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

  Dale Peck

  Contemporary Fiction, Easy, Shallow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps.

  Eve Hewson

  Clothes, House, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.

  Mike Leigh

  Girl, Sexy, Hate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Moving, Book, Political

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, Law, People

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist, and I can honestly tell you that I don't think I'd have a soulful voice if I didn't listen to Stacie. I wanted to sound just like her growing up, and to this day I STILL think I sound a little bit like her. But she is AMAZING!

  Christina Grimmie

  Christian, Growing Up, Hero

  Source: joonbug.com

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• The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

  Jeremy Paxman

  Believe, People, Healthy

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• Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Roots, People

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• Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, Giving

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• Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Church, Facts, Problem

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

  George Will

  Class, Names, America

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• If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Ego

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• The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

  Berenice Abbott

  Eye, Past, Excellence

  Nancy Tousley, Berenice Abbott, Glenbow Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (1982). “The Berenice Abbott portfolios”, Glenbow

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• I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Jobs, Thinking

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Apostolic Church, Self

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• A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

  Douglas Wilson

  Christian, Rome, Two

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Progress, Saws

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• It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.

  Felix S. Cohen

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Writing, Promise, And Love

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• The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

  Anna Wintour

  Taken, Order, America

  "Ashley Tisdale beats Ashlee Simpson by a nose", www.today.com. January 21, 2008.

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• Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.

  Kurt Gödel

  Men, Views, Principles

  "Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel". Book by John W. Dawson Jr., 1997.

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• The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Father, Team

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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• You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

  Bob Geldof

  Book, Fascinating, Ifs

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• The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

  John Perry Barlow

  Differences, Privacy, Shame

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• I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

  Stephen Bayley

  Discovery, Achievement, Taste

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