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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. -- Thomas Cochrane
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. -- Joseph Campbell
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that. -- Juice Newton
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. -- Walter Scott
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. -- Rowan Williams
Contemporary art hates you. -- John Waters
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. -- Maxim Gorky
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility. -- Simon Blackburn
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. -- Orlando Bloom
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. -- Victor Pinchuk
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. -- Gabriel Marcel
Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible -- Sunday Adelaja
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. -- Amy Grant
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. -- Abbie Hoffman
Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. -- Alexander Stoddart
Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! -- Henry Rollins
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. -- Larry Sabato
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. -- Octavio Paz
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. -- Frankie Valli
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news. -- Rich Lowry
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. -- Eberhard Weber
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. -- Simone Weil
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. -- Umberto Eco
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow. -- Andrew Tudor
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. -- Kit Williams
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. -- Eli Broad
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. -- Tariq Ali
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV. -- Gail Carson Levine
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring. -- Carole King
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. -- William James
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? -- Anish Kapoor
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. -- Herbert Marcuse
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. -- David Elliott
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. -- W. H. Auden
Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types. -- David Chang
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. -- Juan Goytisolo
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition. -- David Blunkett
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star. -- Bill Bruford
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. -- Jeffrey Wright
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic. -- Anne Waldman
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. -- Jonathan Coe
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems. -- Susan Faludi
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. -- Christo
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding. -- Theaster Gates
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market. -- Meredith Brooks
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. -- Gertrude Stein
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. -- Jascha Heifetz
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. -- George Bernard Shaw
Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time. -- Christopher Anderson
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. -- Ted Allen
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece. -- Elizabeth Peyton
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. -- Russell M. Nelson
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. -- Spiro T. Agnew
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. -- Damien Hirst
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The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit. -- Jennette McCurdy
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists. -- Alice Morse Earle
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? -- bell hooks
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. -- Jerry Saltz
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. -- Leopold Von Ranke
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind. -- James Rosenquist
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' -- Robert Winston
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. -- Talcott Parsons
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. -- Simon Schama
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. -- David Rockefeller
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. -- Slash
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. -- Jose Mujica
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other. -- Roz Chast
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. -- John Green
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. -- Tom Ford
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood. -- Olga Kurylenko
We are one. -- Thomas Sweeney
The Doctrine is the Ecstasy -- J.T.Abraham
Shame comes in different doses. -- Carla H. Krueger
Amica mia. Amore mio. Mio respiro. -- Petra March
The Question is actually the answer -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
Everything was on television last night -- Don DeLillo
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. -- Stephanie Perkins
When extremists come together extreme things happen. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. -- Linda Joyce
The house was the color of baby vomit. -- Pixie Lynn Whitfield
No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde -- Allen Mack
You need a father figure in your life. -- Carla H. Krueger
Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. -- Michele Brenton
His manhood sways briefly, then comes to a standstill. -- Carla H. Krueger
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Just so you're clear, that wasn't a pity kiss. -- Lisa Brown Roberts
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug. -- Gayle Forman
Change the world so that nothing else is changed. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. -- Mark Zero
Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay. -- Shane Morgan
The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining. -- Thomas Sweeney
I'll die of embarrassment." "At least you'll die knowing. -- Sandy Hall
Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click. -- Keren David
I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium. -- Stephanie Perkins
What you loved as a child, you will love forever -- Francesca Zappia
I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight. -- Ashley Earley
it's not about what to think,it's about how to think. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3? -- Tara Ford
Every time I so much as blink you get an erection. -- Carla H. Krueger
Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment.. Live the life. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry. -- Mark Strand
Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction! -- Sha Li
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you? -- Rebecca Serle
Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten. -- Harry Whitewolf

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