These Days Quotes - Page 22

• These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

  Mick Taylor

  Technology, Cds, Video

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

  Mick Taylor

  Years, Cds, Frustrating

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• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  Larry Flynt

  Sex, Vanilla

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• These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

  Glenn Martinez

  Watches, Needs, Television

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Insane, Information

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• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

  Galen

  Artist, Environmental, Messages

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• I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

  Dick Schaap

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

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• I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Success, Real, Thinking

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• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Thinking

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• In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Study, Conflict

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike

  Boyd Rice

  Ill Will, People, Dislike

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• It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

  Alison Moyet

  Our Generation, People, Interesting

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• Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'

  Niles Eldredge

  Passion, Years, Agreement

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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Meaningful, Moving, Book

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• These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Art, Believe, Sculpture

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• A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

  Mose Allison

  Men, World, Young

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• Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

  Alma Gluck

  Art, Energy, Literature

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• These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.

  Ralph Steiner

  Thinking, Lovely, Cameras

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• It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Sex, Past

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• Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.

  Stephen Collins

  Giving, Heaven, Surfing

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• The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

  Satyajit Ray

  Surfing, Use, Music Is

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Voice, Musician, World

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• Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.

  Tom Freston

  Art, Cutting, Technology

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• I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

  Sarah Zettel

  Science, Stories, Novelists

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• The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death

  Dane Rudhyar

  Drama, Moon, Creative

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