Modern Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Be young. Keep yourself young by having a good, sporty car like a Corvette. It keeps you on your toes. It keeps you young. It keeps you thinking young. It keeps you thinking modern and good things. Corvette is a modern, modern automobile.

  Jack LaLanne

  Thinking, Car, Toes

  Source: www.superchevy.com

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• In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.

  Dalai Lama

  Hate, Frustration, Challenges

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

  Susan Stroman

  Ballet, Stories, Pieces

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.

  Shelby Lynne

  Trying, Records, Way

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

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• A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Funny, Science, Technology

  Diary, Mar. 1964

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• I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

  Eric Hernandez

  Drummer, Website, Isolated

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Different, World, Consumerism

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.111, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.

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• You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

  Jack LaLanne

  World, Today, Toes

  Source: aliveeastbay.com

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• Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Reza Aslan

  President, Conflict, American History

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Untouchability

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

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• The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Government, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.8, Rajpal & Sons

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• Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

  Rob Bell

  Reality, World, Static

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• Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Bangs, Theory

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• Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Play, Squares

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Age, Enlightenment, Reason

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• Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

  Paul Harvey

  Style, Modern Life, Tools

  Source: www.azom.com

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• Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is. See, a modern president has far more responsibility than a president years ago. And if I were rewriting the Constitution, I would suggest a president be more like a monarch and then have a prime minister under him.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.

  Philip Pullman

  Dark, Thinking, Long

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

  Eric Kandel

  Art, Views, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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