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Tag Name "Modern" (2581)

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I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.
Mabel Cheung
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence yes, and its beauty, too.
Paul Gallico
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde
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All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was running his theater. And Stanislavski really was the first inventor of modern acting and then everything that came out of the method and Stella Adler and the great teachers really came out of him.
Annette Bening
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Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.
Mary Ritter Beard
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
Walter Dean Myers
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It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.
Rodney Stark
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Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.
Martin Amis
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Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.
Pope John Paul II
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
Edward Abbey
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Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen Hawking
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
Albert Einstein
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The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
Richard V. Allen
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.
Ed Simons
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
William Beveridge
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Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.
G. Edward Griffin
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In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
Richard M. Nixon
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Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.
Hillary Clinton
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To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.
Taner Edis
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Modern cars I don't like so much.
Amber Heard
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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
Geraldine Brooks
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I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.
Mitch Horowitz
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