These Days Quotes - Page 39

• The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Play, Acting, Trouble

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• Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

  B. C. Forbes

  Golf, Boys, Talking

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• Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.

  Daniel Levitin

  Children, Age, Peers

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Dinner, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marine, Men, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Hero, Men

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• I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?

  Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

  Summer, Long, Sun

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

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• Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream,
  and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.

  Brian Regan

  Dream, Long, Different

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• But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Army, Cities, Miracle

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

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• These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.

  Michael Dumontier

  Technology, Self, Auto Tune

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.

  Ann M. Martin

  Book, Rights, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Real, Celebrity Gossip

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• I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

  Lars Ulrich

  Faces, Used, Seeing Yourself

  "Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo and Producer Charlotte Huggins Talk METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER, 3D, Finding the Right Director, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2013.

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• When I first started working on movies as a production assistant, we were shooting 65, 75, 85 days. I mean, granted some of those things were "Godzilla," "Deep Impact," and those kinds of things, but these days it's like 30-35 days or 40-45 days and you just feel like you're humping trying to get everything done. It's like "Move on, move on, move on!" That's not the way to get the best performances or the most interesting shots. You have to constantly balance schedule and quality of work. For me, that's the biggest thing.

  Michael Sucsy

  Moving, Mean, Impact

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.

  Josh Hartnett

  Growing Up, Character, Men

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

  Richard Branson

  Phones, People, Cameras

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

  Neil Young

  Eye, Who I Am, Differences

  Source: the-talks.com

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• It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Painting

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1662, Delphi Classics

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• My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Prayer, Swings

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1989). “The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952”

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• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Kids, Thinking, Play

  Source: blog.murfie.com

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• It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

  Reid Hoffman

  Conventional

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• Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction.

  Lee Gutkind

  Track, Mind, Fiction

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out.

  Phil Ivey

  Jobs, Moving, Commitment

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

  Angela Davis

  Kids, People, Example

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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