These Days Quotes - Page 27

• The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

  Peter Shilton

  Memories, Attitude, Player

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• A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Dark, Destiny, Men

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

  Earl Warren

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Return, Investment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

  Jared Diamond

  Years, Acting, Twenties

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• I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Business, Work

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• He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Love, Fun, Nice

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.126, Random House

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• I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

  Jason Sellards

  Love, Age, Rebel

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• What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

  James L. Buckley

  Two Sides, Issues, Campaigns

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• There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

  John Fogerty

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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• It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.

  Ronald Reagan

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a playwright's existence . . .. And since readings have become playwrights' main source of exposure, the nature of playwriting has changed to fit readings' needs. Investigation into what is eminently theatrical has been substituted - more and more these days - by what can simply come across and read well.

  Caridad Svich

  Reading, Discovery, Voice

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• I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.

  David Ives

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

  Ron Suskind

  Simple, People, Trying

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• I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

  Brad Renfro

  Golf, Men, Play

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• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Choices, World

  "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the 'Wild' things are". Interview with Jonathan Cohen, www.reuters.com. October 27, 2007.

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• One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.

  Willy Brandt

  Wall, Cities, Chinese

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• Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

  Edward Coke

  Deceit, Fraud, Former

  Sir Edward Coke (1777). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law”

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• What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

  Jason Mraz

  Kids, Ideas, Citizens

  "Singer Jason Mraz's mission in Africa". Interview with Anna Shcherbakova, www.cnn.com. June 28, 2010.

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• It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Fashion, Looks, Way

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• Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

  Tom Lehrer

  Children, Husband, Real

  "Alma". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1965.

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• These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

  Marc Andreessen

  Home, Thinking, Underwear

  "Is Marc Andreessen through with the press?" by John C. Abell, www.wired.com. May 16, 2008.

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• Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

  Frank Lampard

  Reading, Writing, Important

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• The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

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• To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

  Daryl Hall

  Two, Depth, Ephemeral

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