Contemporary Life Quotes
22 Contemporary Life quotes by 20 unique authors
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to…
— Joseph Campbell
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
— June Jordan
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To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They…
— Pina Bausch
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I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a…
— Martin Parr
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I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance,…
— Leonard Baskin
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A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their…
— Dallas Willard
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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with…
— Oscar Wilde
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Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
— Gore Vidal
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What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle…
— Alfred Kazin
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The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to…
— Alvar Aalto
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the…
— Christopher Lasch
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
— Sam Shepard
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
— Karen Kingsbury
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In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is…
— Luis Barragan
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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the…
— Billy Joel
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But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries…
— Sidney Poitier
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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history,…
— Toni Morrison
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The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so…
— Joseph Campbell
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To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
— John Updike
Who Wrote These Contemporary Life Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Contemporary Life Quotes as follows: