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• These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Records, Eclectic

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• The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

  Julie Berry

  Writing, Editors, Age

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Vocabulary, People

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

  Alex Lifeson

  Rocks, Rock Music, Fragmented

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• Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

  Tommy Lee

  Littles, Responsible

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• Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.

  Gerald Edelman

  Thinking, Cells, Essence

  "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.

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• Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

  Joe Klein

  Play, Sick, Citizens

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• Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lasts, Live Every Day

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days.

  Brenda Weiler

  Becoming, Honest, My Own

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• These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

  John Scott

  Church, Moral, Decline

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• Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.

  Renee Marino

  Thinking, Ideas, Perfect

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.

  Barbara Walters

  Heart, Worry, President

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• In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.

  Nick Blaemire

  People, Challenges, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through the whole process with their own sort of system of making the music. It gives it a much more personal individual feel, like unique feel, when somebody has a really idiosyncratic set-up, or they just have what might be considered strange ways of going about the process that yields results that are not just cookie-cutter sounds like everything else... and I think that can only be a positive thing.

  Panda Bear

  Unique, Thinking, Yield

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• I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

  Eric Idle

  People, Dinner, Careful

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python'". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Suicidal, Gay

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, People, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

  Paul Lisicky

  Voice, Sound, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The mystery of the artist is something that the 70's made, but it's not the same these days, and I don't know... to me, I feel like letting your fans know about you is awesome.

  Ryan Follese

  Artist, Fans, Mystery

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• Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.

  Beau Bokan

  Fans, Band, Etc

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• British establishment uses "the royal we," as in, "We think this." You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests that those who are making the decisions to bomb countries, to devastate economies, to take part in acts of international piracy involve all of us.

  John Pilger

  Country, Thinking, Decision

  Source: progressive.org

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• Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Teenager, Pigs

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• I give every page a lot of thought. Probably too much, these days. At the end of the day, you've gotta trust your gut and hope for the best.

  Greg Capullo

  Giving, The End Of The Day, Pages

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.

  Teju Cole

  Reading, Writing, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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