Modern World Quotes - Page 4

• The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Baby, Teenager

  "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

  Jesse Helms

  New York, America, World

  Jesse Helms (2005). “Here's where I Stand: A Memoir”, p.64, Jesse Helms Center

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• Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

  George Sanders

  Bullying, Intelligent, America

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• You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
  But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Funny, Men, America

  The Uncelestial City (1930)

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• The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Night, Moon

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• In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all.

  Tom Shales

  America, People, Bars

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• 'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

  Alan Carr

  America, People, World

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• He was a hateful terrorist who will be missed by all.

  Jack Straw

  America, World, Hateful

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• I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot.

  David Blunkett

  Past, Guarantees That, America

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• Look at Abi Titmuss. This year she's been tied to more bed posts than David Blunkett's guide dog.

  Jonathan Ross

  Dog, Years, America

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• Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

  Rich Hall

  America, Evil, News

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

  Nicholas Blincoe

  Book, Heart, Our World

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• During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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• Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

  A. A. Gill

  Drama, Character, America

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• A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

  Jay McInerney

  Fashion, America, Achievement

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• People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.

  Kelvin MacKenzie

  America, People, Killing Each Other

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• Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

  Paul Johnson

  America, World, Mixtures

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• Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

  Kevin Drum

  Smart, Long, Tasks

  "Three Cheers for Monotasking!" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

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• I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Giving Up, Book, Careers

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of my dependence on the modern world. If the modern world collapsed tomorrow I would be fine, and I see so many others who would not be.

  Varg Vikernes

  Degrees, Would Be, World

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.

  Varg Vikernes

  Thinking, Growth, Would Be

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Technology, People, Becoming

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• Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Space, People

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