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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.


Cate Blanchett
Tags: World Much Look
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The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.


Nigella Lawson
Tags: People Know Want
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Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.


Helen Fisher
Tags: Women Out World
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.


Ian Hamilton Finlay
Tags: Just Am I Am
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.


Ursula K. Le Guin
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
Julius Genachowski
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.


Gavin Bryars
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.


Bear Grylls
Tags: Me Life Find
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
Tags: Better Idea Art
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
Charlaine Harris
Tags: World Most Big
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
Will Self
Tags: More Than World
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
Zooey Deschanel
Tags: Work People Like
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Twyla Tharp
Tags: People Think Very
The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
Ellen Key
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.


Aldous Huxley
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Modern money is almost altogether credit money.


John Buchanan Robinson
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.


Eric Allin Cornell
This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since.
Marcus Luttrell
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
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The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.


Claudio Monteverdi
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
Tags: Time Like Because
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
Glen Hansard
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.


Leonardo da Vinci
Tags: Work Than Better
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Next, we will create a modern immigration law.


Gerhard Schroder
Tags: Will Next Create
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce
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Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.


Geraldo Rivera
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.


Oliver Hudson
Tags: Things Many Today
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
Lorraine Toussaint
Tags: Think Up Know
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Tags: Society Like Want
It is important to consider that the horror movies should - like modern art - not have a too obvious meaning. When you watch them, it is more important what you feel than what you understand.
Christophe Gans
Tags: Movies You Like
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Lionel Blue
Tags: Religion Like Day
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We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.


Alex Campbell
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.


Tayari Jones
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
Barbara Kruger
Tags: Design Me Think
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Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.


Stephen Hawking
Tags: Science Up Modern
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Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.


Ezra Taft Benson
Tags: Truth Many Modern
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.
Jon Anderson
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
Robert Darnton
Tags: Technology Up Our