Today Quotes - Page 9

• I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

  Sandra Lee

  Thinking, Overwhelmed

  "Sandra Lee's Homemade Success". Interview with Nancy Jo Sales, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 13, 2011.

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• There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

  Taylor Lautner

  Not Friends, Exes

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• The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

  Tom Lantos

  Giving, House, Bills

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• The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

  William P. Leahy

  Church Today, Spirit, Deserted

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• Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

  Bernard Marcus

  Hero, Kids, Yesterday

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• In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Clever, Smart, Hard Work

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

  Louise Mensch

  Writing, Embarrassed, Novel

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• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

  China Mieville

  Thinking, Interesting, Vision

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• I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

  Chris Matthews

  Giving Up, Islamic, People

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• Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

  Jack Ma

  Financial, Financial Markets

  "Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo". Interview with Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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• But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

  James MacArthur

  Successful, Careers, Acting

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• Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

  Tony Visconti

  Musician, Records, Sole

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• Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

  Joy Williams

  Language, Wanderers

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• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  N. T. Wright

  Two, America, Issues

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• The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Nba, Beats, Checks

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• I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Years, Tough Times, Missing

  "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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• I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

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• Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

  Zhang Ziyi

  News, World, Trends

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• Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!

  Nigel Hamilton

  Sports, Strong, Hero

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• The most important man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on… even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me a lot when he left me I also matured because of it.

  Romy Schneider

  Hurt, Men, Important

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• Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.

  John McCain

  America, Fixed, Young

  McCain Campaign's Prepared Speech for Denver Town Hall Meeting with Question and Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2008.

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

  John Brunner

  Mind, Excellence, Different

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• A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Looks, Use

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