Modern Day Quotes

• I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Icons, Cinema

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• Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

  Susan Cain

  Warrior, Simple, Office

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books

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• Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom,
  The ancient poet sung it,
  And dear it is on summer days
  To lie at rest among it.
  I know the realms where people say
  The flowers have not their fellow;
  I know where they shine out like suns,
  The crimson and the yellow.
  I know where ladies live enchained
  In luxury's silken fetters,
  And flowers as bright as glittering gems
  Are used for written letters.
  But ne'er was flower so fair as this,
  In modern days or olden;
  It groweth on its nodding stem
  Like to a garland golden.

  Mary Howitt

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  Mary Botham Howitt, “The Broom Flower”

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• There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

  John Baldacci

  Art, Thinking, Engineering

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Blessed, Fall, Sunset

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• It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

  Christian Slater

  Real, Book, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Interview: Giovanni Ribisi on 'Middle Men'". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.mtv.com. August 6, 2010.

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• As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Past, Information Processing, Brain

  Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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• The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

  Armand Assante

  Italian, Gdp, Modern

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• I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

  Danny Boyle

  Inspirational, Dance, Musical

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• It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Opportunity, Reality

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• They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Couple, Reality, Two

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• Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

  Aberjhani

  Reality, Dancing, Quality

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• The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

  David Platt

  Love You, Biblical, Enemy

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• I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Writing, Mind, Principles

  "President Jimmy Carter Authors New Bible Book, Answers Hard Biblical Questions". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

  Bruce Feiler

  Father, Names, Modern

  "This Month in Moses: How the Superhero of the Bible Became an American Pop Icon" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Thinking, Idols, Play

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• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Gay, Marijuana

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• I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

  Theo Rossi

  Cowboy, Fascination, Intriguing

  "Theo Rossi Talks Sons of Anarchy: Brick Season 4" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 04, 2011.

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• Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

  Gus Van Sant

  Thinking, Cinema, Information

  "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2004.

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• If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

  Martin Scorsese

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Beautiful Day

  "Dialogue: Martin Scorsese". Interview with Todd Longwell, www.backstage.com. January 6, 2003.

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• Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Artist, Winning

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• what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

  Bill McKibben

  Zoos, Animal, Exotic

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.124, Random House

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• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

  Eric Weiner

  Real, Biblical, Garden

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