My Contemporaries Quotes
31 My Contemporaries quotes by 30 unique authors
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As…
— David Bowie
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by…
— Albert Hofmann
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne);…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
— Barry Humphries
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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I…
— Kenneth More
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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I…
— Kenneth More
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For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was…
— Aldous Huxley
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find…
— Fred Hoyle
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I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5.…
— Brian McKnight
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
— Alex Cox
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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be…
— Hal Porter
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I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
— Elliott Erwitt
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I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries…
— Democritus
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
— Samuel Beckett
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I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get…
— Howard Hodgkin
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If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
— Thomas Merton
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Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would…
— Richard Griffiths
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I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.
— Jamie Bell
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I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into…
— Sydney Brenner
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and…
— Siobhan Fahey
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I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.
— Deepika Padukone
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I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a…
— Kathy Griffin
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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain…
— Joan Collins
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How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest…
— Philip Johnson
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