These Days Quotes - Page 17

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

Tadatoshi Akiba

Memories, War, Fate

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We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.

Stanford Moore

Running, Knowledge, Science

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Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

Cherie Currie

Fun, Sleep, Addiction

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When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

Ron Delany

Motivational, Running, Athlete

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Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

Philip Whalen

Death, Years, Tree

Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press

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I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.

Corey Taylor

Mean, Memorable, Thinking

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The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

Roger Moore

Children, Eight, Sight

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These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

Drake

Relationship, Love Life, Commitment

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Loyalty doesn't seem to be in the game that much these days where players leave their clubs which made them the stars they are today either to seek personal glory or fill their pockets. But one man serves as the epitome of club loyalty.

Steven Gerrard

Loyalty, Football, Stars

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The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Graeme Le Saux

Photography, Thinking, Curves

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I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.

Anne Geddes

Photography, Heart, Emotional

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In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).

Judit Polgar

Girl, Sports, Country

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As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.

Alex Ferguson

Football, Player, Young

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Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

Eric Kierans

Years, Support, Community

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This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.

Eric Kierans

Competition, Growth, Corporations

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These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Government, Benefits, Pay

"America’s public servants are now its masters". www.ft.com. September 10, 2010.

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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

James Taylor

Faith, Inspiration, And Love

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So shine on through these days we have to fill.

John the Apostle

Shine On, Shining, Vision

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Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance, Home, Average

"A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than men, and that's a thread I've explored in all my films. When I see TV these days, I'm shocked at how all the main women characters are portrayed as evil. Women are the foundation of everything, and they deserve to be treated that way on camera.

Yash Chopra

Heart, Character, Men

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

David Halberstam

People, Events, Too Much

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Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change

Dave Matthews

Life, Sweet, Climbing

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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Thomas Carlyle

Making Money, Hell, Getting Along

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These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I have a moment to myself, I'll sit down with my guitar and open my journal, and start kind of massaging things together, and see if a song takes shape. Or sometimes, I'll just be hanging out with my guitar and come up with a chord progression or a lick, and that'll sort of sit around for a while waiting to marry itself to some words. So it's sort of haphazard and it's like...junk culture. I go around finding shiny objects and I glue them together laughs.

Ani DiFranco

Song, Writing, Guitar

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These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs I bailed on could have been better, that had those great two verses and then I kind of coasted from there. These days, if a song is giving me trouble, I put it aside and pick it up later, and keep doing that, for a year if I have to, until it takes shape.

Ani DiFranco

Song, Writing, Years

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