Modern Quotes
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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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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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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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.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
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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.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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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.
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Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
