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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
— Salvador Dali
I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.
— Nicholas Sparks
I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.
— Walter Mosely
I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.
— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris Of Yardley
Modern redistribution is built around a logic of rights and a principle of equal access to a certain number of goods deemed to be fundamental.
— Thomas Piketty
The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.
— Darcey Steinke
So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.
— Yohji Yamamoto
To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
— Yohji Yamamoto
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
— David Ogilvy
Modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky,
— Alexander McCall Smith
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
— Neville Marriner
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
— Alexander Rodchenko
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
— Herman Daly
I'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder
— Thomas Armstrong
Normal is modern-day slavery. Don't be normal.
— Peter Voogd
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
— Aubrey McClendon
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
— Greil Marcus
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
— Kenny Werner
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
— Pete Townshend
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
— Egon Schiele
That decision to use basically all white models reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted.
— Bethann Hardison
It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
— Albert Schweitzer
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
— Stacy Keach
Modern food may be the most compelling lie humans have ever told.
— Mark Schatzker
It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
— Henry David Thoreau
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One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
— Henri Matisse
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
— Richard Le Gallienne
No matter how good a person may be at doing things , if he or she fails to keep pace with the modern trend he or she may become irrevelant
— Osunsakin Adewale
People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.
— Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
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[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not
— David Bentley Hart
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
— Sylvain Tesson
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
— Janet Fitch
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
— Dorothy Nevill
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.
— Leonid Shamkovich
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.
— Gordon Parker
I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.
— Graydon Carter
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
— Richard M. Weaver
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
— Susan Sontag
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! — Vera Nazarian
You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.
— William J. Clinton
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
— Julian Casablancas
The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.
— Dick Morris
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
— Confucius
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[Technology] has taught us how to become gods before we have learned to be men.
— Herbert Joseph Muller
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
— John B. S. Haldane
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
— Chuck Schumer
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
— Twyla Tharp
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
— Ibrahim Babangida
In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
— Nate Berkus
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
— Herbert Read
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
— Wallace Stevens
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
— Patricia Hewitt
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
— Vince Lombardi
Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated
— Paul Valery
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
— Thomas Piketty
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
— Mason Cooley
To be modern is to destroy nature.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing - an embarrassment.
— James Martin
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.
— Mike Connolly
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.
— Adrian Grenier
You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.
— Graham Hill
By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
— Blaise Pascal
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
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
— Irwin Edman
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.[Afterword] — Michael Chabon
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
— Bertrand Russell
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
