These Days Quotes - Page 8

• I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Feminist, Want

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Intervirw with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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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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• I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Mind, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.

  Peter M. Lenkov

  Song, Winning, Battle

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• There seems to be some coverage these days that somehow terrorism is not a big problem. Or somehow, national security is all taken care of, and that's just not true.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Taken, Care, Problem

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Distance, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.

  Debra Hamel

  Daughter, Two, Two Daughters

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• I've been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he's on my album. We did a one round battle on my album and that was just me capturing These Days.

  Ab-Soul

  Real, Rap, Long

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

  Terry Bozzio

  Difficult

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

  Jim Goad

  Years, Racist, Courageous

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such a tentative, fishing-hook way to go about it that these days I've found it's easier to kind of at least have your concept and start attaching things to a skeleton. So I try to find the armature, the kind of backbone of it first that you can start to hang those scenes on.

  Shane Black

  Writing, Skeletons, Fishing

  Source: collider.com

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• You can forge anything these days, and we're living in a fake news era.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Fake, News, Eras

  "President al-Assad: The US’s only way to defeat terrorism in Syria is through cooperation with Syrian government-Video". Yahoo News interview, sana.sy. February 10, 2017.

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• The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, America, House

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• Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Pride, Honor

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.166, Paradise Publishing

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• Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

  Peter Dunne

  Sports, Motor Racing, Mph

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• We are a society that constantly celebrates no one but women and it must stop! I want to hear what the men of the world have been up to. What fun new guns have they invented? What are they raping these days? What’s Michael Bay’s next film going to be?

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Gun, Men

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

  Drug, Hollywood, Groups

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Trying, Directors, Way

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview With John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

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• To put it a little crudely, these days nobody is afraid of excommunication. If they decide they don't want to be Catholic anymore and want to become Episcopalians or Hindus, they just do it. The churches no longer have the disciplinary powers to keep their followers in check. That means that they have to accept much more feeding up from below than they had to in the past.

  Ninian Smart

  Mean, Past, Catholic

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  Calvin Trillin

  Expression, Magazines, Firsts

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• A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

  Peter Ustinov

  Diplomats, Diplomacy, Waiter

  "Romanoff and Juliet".

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• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  Eddie Vedder

  People, Kind, Imagine

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• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  Jody Watley

  Writing, Ideas, Singing

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