Modern Quotes
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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
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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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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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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
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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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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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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
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I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.
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He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
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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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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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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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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
