These Days Quotes - Page 21

• I think I look nicer now. It's really weird cause when you're 21 you think, "Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then". And actually I quite like the way I look. I feel OK about myself these days.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Looks, Way

  "Kate Winslet says her acting 'could've been better' in 'Titanic'", www.mtv.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Stars, Party, Thinking

  "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Eye, People

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• Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

  Roger Penrose

  Ideas, Understanding, Gauges

  "Secrets of the Old One". Interview with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com.

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• There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

  Kate Millett

  Moments

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.300, University of Illinois Press

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• I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

  John Cusack

  Time, Liars, Lying

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• How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Evil, Population, Rooms

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• To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Hurt, Art

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• John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

  James Berardinelli

  Action, Thrillers, Theater

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• Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

  Charles Saatchi

  Sports, Art, Self

  "Charles Saatchi: the hideousness of the art world" by Charles Saatchi, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

  Mick Taylor

  Technology, Cds, Video

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

  Mick Taylor

  Years, Cds, Frustrating

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• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  Larry Flynt

  Sex, Vanilla

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• These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

  Glenn Martinez

  Watches, Needs, Television

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Insane, Information

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• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

  Galen

  Artist, Environmental, Messages

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• I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

  Dick Schaap

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

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• I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Success, Real, Thinking

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• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Thinking

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• In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Study, Conflict

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike

  Boyd Rice

  Ill Will, People, Dislike

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• It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

  Alison Moyet

  Our Generation, People, Interesting

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• Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'

  Niles Eldredge

  Passion, Years, Agreement

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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Meaningful, Moving, Book

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• These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Art, Believe, Sculpture

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