Quotes with modern-day

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  • Alexander Herzen I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Booker T. Washington I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bryan Adams I bring out an engineer, everything fits into a suitcase and we just record. I have so much spare time during that day that it makes sense to utilize it to do something creative like that, as opposed to just sitting around the hotel and sightseeing or something.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Bruno Mars I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Adam Michnik I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Stephen Leacock I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Henry Ford I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Lucius C. Falkland I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
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  • Rosa Parks I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Bryan Ferry I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Adam Sandler I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bryce Harper I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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