History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex,… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Looks to me like Felicity didn’t enjoy being mauled,” Daniel pointed out reasonably. When what he reasonably wanted to do, was shove… — Vanessa Jaye Copy Share Image
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Roberto Cavalli is a great designer. The Just Cavalli brand is very sexy, young and cool. Each collection is very contemporary and… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Common dates in romance movies: Seats in a box at the opera or ballet Walking around a beautiful foreign city Night-time picnics… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said… — Junaid Jamshed Copy Share Image
I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
