Modern Day Quotes - Page 4

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Nelson

Success, Entrepreneur, Decision

Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

David I. Rozenberg

Lines, Soup, Mail

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I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.

David Batstone

Children, Passion, Village

Source: forums.juniper.net

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Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.

Bertrand Russell

Christian, Teaching, Departed

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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

Warren Farrell

Weed, Teaching, Princess

Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.

Anita Loos

Night, Hot And Cold, Cities

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It's modern-day slavery.

Adrian Peterson

Nfl, Dumb, Slavery

"Adrian Peterson expresses frustration on labor issues". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. March 15, 2011.

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I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Fall, Kissing, Thinking

"NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

Lily Collins

Thinking, Everyday, Fairy Tale

"Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

Harry Reid

Party, Believe, Government

Source: www.foxnews.com

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This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

Thomas Jefferson

Religious, Important, Constitution

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How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

Thomas Jefferson

People, Tongue, Idiot

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Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

Jon Turteltaub

Spiritual, Silly, Magic

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As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day.

Maria Sharapova

Jobs, Looks, Pace

Source: www.glamour.com

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I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

Thinking, Guitar, Modern

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I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

Taika Waititi

Hate, Kids, Thinking

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Kings, Book, Voice

"Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Anne F. Beiler

Should Have, Miracle, Auntie

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Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Paul Singer

Reality, Creating, May

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As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

Douglas Pearce

Mean, Successful, Australia

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As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

Henry David Thoreau

War, Native American, Hunting

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.

Karl Popper

Plato, Political, Enemy

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So, the next film won't necessarily be modern-day Albany, Georgia but we're grateful for the films we've made (with Sherwood). The church is an amazing church. We're gonna grow as filmmakers and invest in the next generation of upcoming filmmakers and try to duplicate what we're doing.

Alex Kendrick

Grateful, Church, Trying

"'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

Howard Schultz

Meaningful, Coffee, Organization

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With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Joel Miller

War, Thinking, Witch Trials

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