These Days Quotes - Page 32

• There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

  Chuck Todd

  Stories, Links, Journalism

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• These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.

  Simon Le Bon

  Giving Up, Mistake, Believe

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• I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

  Robert Scheer

  Jobs, Numbers, People

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• Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

  Joe Torre

  Crazy, Kids, Tvs

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• Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Children, Hate, Heart

  "Paris Talks". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá ("The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace," October 21, 1911), reference.bahai.org. 1912.

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• You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

  Billy Sherwood

  Ideas, Musician, Labels

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• These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Character, Burn Out

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• What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Morning, War, Moving

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• To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.

  Phil Robertson

  Thinking, Boys, Suits

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?

  Warren Leight

  Husband, Drama, Games

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Wind, Well Known

  "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, 2007.

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• Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Art, Writing

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• Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

  Merritt Wever

  Giving, Guests, Broadway

  "Merritt Wever: ‘Nurse’ Zoey May Have Secrets of Her Own". Interview with Jackie Strause, pagesix.com. July 31, 2009.

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• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  Randi Weingarten

  May, Adults, Republican

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• These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Guy, Way, Pool

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• The only guys I like watching these days are Roger Gracie, Marcelo Garcia, Kron and a few others. Those guys finish and go for submissions. They don't hold the sleeves and stall for ten minutes.

  Relson Gracie

  Guy, Roger, Submission

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• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Talking, America

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• My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

  Jacques Brel

  Lonely, Singers, You Like It

  "Character: Jacques Brel". "Nous les artistes: Jacques Brel", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

  Jenna Coleman

  Elements, Tvs, Surprise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  Dana Fox

  Done, Comedy, Conventions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

  Aulis Sallinen

  People, Sound, Enormous

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• These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.

  Patricia Hampl

  Grief, Views, Profound

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• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  Wendell Berry

  Party, Lines, Uniforms

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.84, Counterpoint

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• On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Morning, Population, Wake Up

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• And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Government, Perfect, Storm

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