Our Time Quotes - Page 31

• Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

  Catherine Marshall

  Scandal, Poverty, Changed

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• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Community, Characteristics, Stills

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

  Arthur Cohn

  Directors, Conviction, Figures

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• Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

  Ricky Jay

  Sunday, Chinese, Shrimp

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• Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.

  Richard Selzer

  Brother, Cutting, Medicine

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• I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

  Stockard Channing

  Technology, Thinking, People

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

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• Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Wmd, Nuclear, Danger

  "New world disorder" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.'

  Edward Forbes

  Science, Self, Names

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• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  Henry Flynt

  New York, Insecure, Artist

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• Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Country, Commitment, Justice For All

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• I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

  Rami Malek

  Thinking, Bills, Privilege

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

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• I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

  Emeli Sande

  People, Albums, Faces

  "Exclusive: Uk Singer Emeli Sande on Her American Debut, 'our Version of Events'". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

  George Saunders

  Nice, Thinking, Desire

  "Conversation: George Saunders, Author of ‘Tenth of December’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

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• To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Fun, People, Together

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• As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

  Chris Ware

  Children, Past, Thinking

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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• It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Other Worlds

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• CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.

  Leslie Moonves

  Home, Work Out, Proud

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• Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

  Hayden Carruth

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

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• Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back- government has no place in the middle.

  Mark Kirk

  Sex, Couple, Love You

  "Mark Kirk endorses gay marriage" by Breanna Edwards, www.politico.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Book, Comfort

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• Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

  Edward Frenkel

  Math, Doors, Talking

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