Modern Quotes
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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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.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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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.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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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.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
