1165 Modern Quotes for You to Enjoy

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game. Doug TenNapel

Funny Game Would Would-Be Easy Pie Make Making Goal Modern Anybody Games Actually

Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape. Douglas Rushkoff

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Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. Dweezil Zappa

Made Chasing Everybody Software Virtually Everything Gear Records Tails Like Identical Because Sound Modern Wants Popular Thing Last

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. Dylan Moran

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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner. E. Joseph Cossman

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. Ed Harris

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This idea about cheerful thinking, a digital platform for people to present their ideas, organise events around the country - that is what I am focused on building: a digital think-tank for the modern age that can help show people things can be better; the world can be different. Ed Miliband

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A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions. Edmund Phelps

Property Change Rights Financial Law Marked Property Rights Myriad Economy Institutions Arrangements Modern Modernization Company Brings

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. Edmund White

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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach. Edmund White

People Old Wind Clothes Gone Research Approach Eating About Taking Putting Sort Lot Historical Modern Maybe Them Gone With The Wind Who Even Novelists Basically Drag

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II. Eisaku Sato

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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

Time Man Drop Oppose Nothing Add Lice Only He Like Dead Limb Because Off Modern Modern Man Modernism

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it. Elif Batuman

Life Power Oppose Machine Those Machines Relentless Relentlessly Status Classes About Russian Steam Unruly He Anna Know Itself Did Modern Who Tolstoy Peasant Creepy

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. Elihu Root

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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. Elihu Root

Government Practice Judgment Considerate Citizens Constitute Constitutional Constitutional Government Individual Exercise Modern Successful Electorate Reason Who Growth Compels

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands. Elizabeth Blackburn

Food Important Research Corn Worldwide Thousands Thousands Of Years Became Continue Years Years Ago Begun American Modern Human Central Breeding Agricultural

For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. Elle Fanning

Love Day School Try Style Whatever Own Baby Bit One Day Favorite Boots Wear Dresses My Own Week Colors Mix Doll Modern Maybe Want Little Little Bit Uniform Vintage Soft

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow

Will Once No Idea Someday Idea Antiquated Modern

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. Ellen McLaughlin

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