Quotes with modern-day

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1282.

  • Susan Sontag With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Julie Burchill Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Bootsy Collins Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bayard Taylor Yonder fly his scattered golden arrows, And smite the hills with day.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Aaron Stanford You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard You are born modern, you do not become so.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ben Zobrist You are either good or you're not at whatever your job is. And it is more important that you understand the grace and love and peace you have in Christ, whether you are good or bad at whatever you are doing every day.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Salman Rushdie You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • John Wooden You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Barry Manilow You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Clarence Day You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Antony Sher You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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