Modern Quotes - Page 38

• Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

  Clare Wright

  Women, Thinking, Ideas

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• The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It is a sacred cow within a sacred cow, and it is just about the Absolutest Absolute in the history of human thought.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Light, Criticism

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• I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Guy, Way, Kind

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• I think the legacy was set because the way George Mitchell was the leader enabled Tom Daschle to be the leader he is. It carried on the spirit of integrity and of reform, of also working both with committee chairmen but bringing in the newer members to be able to have a voice and a say and participate in the deliberations, to always look at a modern way of doing it.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Integrity, Thinking, Voice

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Lasts, Social, Should

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Opposites, Facts

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

  John Shelby Spong

  Plato, Thinking, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

  John Shelby Spong

  Sea, Sky, Miracle

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moon, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.

  Karen Abbott

  Character, Practice, Style

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

  Katie Cassidy

  Strong, Believe, Gender Equality

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• One of my favorite facts about Jason [Benjamin] is that he collects shirts from tattoo parlors. He has a bunch of tattoo parlor T-shirts, but no tattoos. And then he wears, like, vans and jeans. My boyfriend said he looks like a modern Bruce Springsteen, which is a pretty high compliment.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, Jeans, My Boyfriend

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, www.ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Believe, Ethnicity, Diversity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.

  Vandana Shiva

  Girl, Thinking, India

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, Issues, Progress

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• There's this overly friendly sense of community built up by very isolated people, and there's this Lutheran humbleness that keeps people from talking about their own feelings and asking about yours. What does that do in this modern age where everyone takes pictures of their food, and they share every thought they've ever had in real time?

  Noah Hawley

  Real, Talking, People

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of Fargo, Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting Cat's Cradle". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently summed up the problem to me very well. He said the idea of Europe has become an administration, and now people think that the administration is the idea. But that doesn't mean we should give up on the idea - it means we should change the administration.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Giving Up, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

  David Mandel

  Presidential, Library, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff.

  Sebastian Clovis

  People, Together, Different

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Communication, Mean

  "Theresa May answers your questions". ConservativeHome Interview, conservativehome.blogs.com. May 18, 2007.

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• I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew that I uniquely had the comics version of his job, which was to take Spider-Man and put him into the modern day. But I thought, "Maybe he wants to tell me to cut it out." So I come in, it's in his office, and then Stan Lee comes in, and I'd only ever met Stan as a fan, not as a professional. And then they sit us down on a couch, and roll in an AV cart with a TV on it and go, "We're going to show you the first cut of Spider-Man."

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Jobs, Cutting, Men

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islam, Trying, Ataturk

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change. It has the ability to put big, complex, and controversial subjects across in an easy-to-understand and digestible form. It has the power to change someone's perspective on the world in a very short space of time - film has the power to change the world itself.

  Sam Branson

  Powerful, Believe, Space

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• To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Thinking, Garden, Phones

  "Saving The Planet With Ed Begley, Jr". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

  Jen Lilley

  Purpose, Slavery, Human Trafficking

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