These Days Quotes - Page 10

• I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Ideas, People

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• Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

  John Pilger

  Writing, Reality, Looks

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Thinking, Trends

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• I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Guitar, Car, Bass

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• Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

  Tony Randall

  Theatre, Very Good, University

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• It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Technology, Mind

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• I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Qualms About, Library

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• You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Team, Watches

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• Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

  Mickey Rourke

  Army, Men, Doors

  "“Domino” Interviews: Mickey Rourke and Edgar Ramirez". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, President, Hearing

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

  Shawn Ryan

  Thinking, Expectations, Bars

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• Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Past, Artist, Giving

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• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Flesh Eating, Viruses

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• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  Hal Sparks

  Mean, Commitment, Rights

  "Hal Sparks, ‘Gay-Adjacent’ Star of Queer As Folk , Explains Why He Supports LGBT Equality" by Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, Insane, Want

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

  James Surowiecki

  College, Thinking, Mind

  "Rent-Seekers". www.newyorker.com. August 13, 2007.

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• Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

  David Suzuki

  People, Mind, Energy

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• Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Divorce, Vow

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• Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  News, Priceless, Should

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  Calvin Trillin

  Expression, Magazines, Firsts

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• A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

  Peter Ustinov

  Diplomats, Diplomacy, Waiter

  "Romanoff and Juliet".

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• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  Eddie Vedder

  People, Kind, Imagine

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• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  Jody Watley

  Writing, Ideas, Singing

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

  Saul Williams

  Mistake, Rap, Ghetto

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