Best Modern Day Sayings
102 Modern Day quotes by 91 unique authors
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Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support…
— Rick Perry
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I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing…
— Theo Rossi
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Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
— Gus Van Sant
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If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure…
— Martin Scorsese
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Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural…
— Martin Filler
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what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's…
— Bill McKibben
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Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence…
— Eric Weiner
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of…
— Aberjhani
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Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.…
— Susan Cain
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People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.
— Ross Kemp
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In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I…
— Lisa Kristine
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I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
— George Blagden
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In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.
— Michelle MacLaren
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If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of…
— Ray Bradbury
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Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.
— Neneh Cherry
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While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for…
— Brendan Sexton III
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Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for…
— Alex Berenson
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Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
— Paul Singer
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It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.
— Corin Nemec
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We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban…
— Michael Steele
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify…
— Rick Riordan
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I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the…
— Rick Riordan
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While it is important to be caring, compassionate and loving to others, it is vital to be all those things to ourselves, when we give…
— Cendie
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