These Days Quotes - Page 34

• Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).

  Scott Adams

  Country, Stupid, Thinking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.446, Penguin

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• Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Feminist, Awkward, Feminism

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• Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

  Robert Morgan

  Thinking, Enjoyment, Best Poetry

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• If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.

  Peter Marshall

  Believe, Play, Kitchen

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• The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

  Ashley Olsen

  Jeans, Long, Pennies

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• Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives - in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles - we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if they matter less. But I don't think they matter less.

  Susan Fletcher

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

  Luke Ford

  Kids, Autism, Growing

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• You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

  Mark Webber

  Dad, Race, Two

  "Mark Webber: I'm ready to have another bloody good crack at it". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Book, Trends

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Assassins, Superstar

  "When You're Strange", 2009.

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• Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.

  Michael Haneke

  Country, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.

  Brice Marden

  Art, Believe, School

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• When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Team, Moon, Drawing

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• Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

  James Haven

  Unusual, Love Each Other, Ifs

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• GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Gps, Doctors, Dying

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.50, Bradt Travel Guides

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• There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Intuition, Nonprofits, Generations

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• TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.

  Steve Fowler

  Tvs, Idiot, Boxes

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• Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

  Melody Carlson

  Teenager, Heart, Faint Of Heart

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• Football these days isn't going forwards. It's going sidewards

  Bobby Gould

  Football

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• Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Ideas, Diversity

  "Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Doe, Too Late, Decadence

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.

  Paul Valery

  Fate, Mind, Very Good

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 156), 1931.

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• The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.

  Francis Collins

  Flower, Miracle, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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