Daniel Pinchbeck Quotes
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.Daniel Pinchbeck
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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 -
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida -
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk -
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 -
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw -
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 -
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde -
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin -
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
Berthold Auerbach -
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
Gary Haugen -
I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.
Eric Thomas -
I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.
Dana Carvey -
My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.
Charles Gavan Duffy -
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
Daniel Pinchbeck