Nostalgic Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, People, Rats

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

  David Burnett

  Age, Golden, Photojournalism

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• I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Balance, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Jumping back into it was easy as apple pie, it was natural. Honestly, I'm not trying to be nostalgic and talk about the old days but I really believe wholeheartedly that the three of us, Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself really learned how to play our instruments together and now that we are playing together again it can't be anything but natural.

  Reed Mullin

  Believe, Jumping, Play

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There's still value in a CD, even if it's just nostalgic. People are still willing to pay. But it can't compare to a digital-only release where you can control the exact time that it'll come out, you know what I mean? So whoever finds how to bridge that gap is gonna make a lot of money.

  J. Cole

  Mean, Cds, Bridges

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do so many different things. I was able to evolve from modeling into acting. And then when acting opportunities became limited because of my age, I was able to become a writer and director and author. So, I am grateful to myself that I didn't just sit around and become nostalgic about the past that has been and can't come back, but that I instead decided to move on.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Grateful, Moving, Opportunity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Political, Bankers, Experts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that's why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence.

  Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

  Thinking, Style, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and some of the Garbage sessions because my daughter, who's 10-years-old, when she was about 6 or 7 she was more curious about what I do. I have all these platinum records and stuff, they've all just been in boxes in storage for years but I started just digging through those things because I sort of want her to be aware of my past. I never really put the old recordings on and listen to them and go, "Oh that sounds great."

  Butch Vig

  Daughter, Past, Done

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!

  Thomas Koner

  Philosophical, Past, Tradition

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sweet, Book, Europe

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Mean, Past, People

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• I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Cards, Paper

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

  Hal Sparks

  Administration, Made, Wells

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• I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, New Ideas, Happenings

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

  Rakim

  Hip Hop, Feelings, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Sentimental, Busy, Reason

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Government, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

  Susan Sontag

  1974 In the New York Review of Books,18 Apr.

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• And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Fantasy

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

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• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  Adam Gopnik

  Autumn, Light, Games

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

  David Guetta

  Different, Looks, Phases

  "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

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• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  Deborah Tall

  Children, Video, Looks

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

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