Modern Quotes
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
Frances O'Connor
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
Oscar Wilde
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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Viktor Orban
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Oscar Wilde
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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
Tom Stoppard
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As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
Frederick Forsyth
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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.
William Halsey
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People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
Gregory Walter Graffin
Bad Religion
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Dana Carvey
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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
