Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
Jack McDevitt
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
Lapo Elkann
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
Salman Khurshid
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
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Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
J. G. Ballard
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
Lord Dunsany
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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Anthony Daniels
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
Oscar Wilde
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Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.
Tilda Swinton
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I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.
Varg Vikernes Burzum
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Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.
Melissa Benoist
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Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.
Michael Cudlitz
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
Taylor Sheridan
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You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
Daniel Pinchbeck