These Days Quotes - Page 20

• You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.

  Helon Habila

  Book, Responsibility, Tired

  Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

  Kristen Ashley

  Eye, Light, Smoking

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• Most rappers these days is actors,
  And I can't keep watching the same movie.

  Mick Jenkins

  Rap, Hip Hop, Actors

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• These days you can't see who's in cahoots,
  Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Kkk, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Reality, Essence, Atheism

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

  Shirley Jones

  Reality, Feelings, Who Cares

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• I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.

  Shane Warne

  Reality, Thinking, Bubbles

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• Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

  Bill Griffith

  Reality, Attention, Way

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• These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Teamwork, Sides, Inspirational Team

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• Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Memorable, Dark

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• They say the shoe can always fit, no matter whose foot it's on. These days feel like I'm squeezing in 'em. Who ever wore 'em before just wasn't thinking big enough, I'm about to leave 'em with 'em

  Drake

  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

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• On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

  Calista Flockhart

  Exercise, Years, Anorexia

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• These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Eye, Age, Comfort

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• Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Commitment, Want

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• A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

  John Newcombe

  Couple, Play, Guy

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• Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world? That is such a common question these days among artists. I truly believe that most artists will come to a cross road where they will have to decide on which route to take as it's extremely hard to be successful in both worlds.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Believe, Successful, Artist

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• There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  Unity, Human Experience, Specialization

  Allan McLeod Cormack's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1979.

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• The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.

  Max Cleland

  White, America, Issues

  "'The White House Has Played Cover-Up'–Former 9/11 Commission Member Max Cleland Blasts Bush". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 23, 2004.

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• Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish

  Wallace Thurman

  Years, Long, Thank God

  Wallace Thurman (2013). “Infants of the Spring”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Running, Heart

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• The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

  Doc Hayes

  Basketball, Team, Hotel Lobby

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• Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football

  Diego Maradona

  Football, Running, People

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• Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Stupid, Silly, Formula 1

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