These Days Quotes - Page 4

• Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.

  Bradford Cox

  Hard

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most every album - and especially metal albums these days - are made in a way that you can grow tired of them very easily: They're made to be dissected and played on radio, released as singles or stuck on at parties.

  Mat McNerney

  Party, Tired, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

  Mat McNerney

  Song, Ipods, Long

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

  Ed Droste

  Definitions, Pops, Folks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.

  Kode9

  Running, War, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Rocks, Indie Rock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic limbo between the two. They don't really have a language, and are, in some deep sense, homeless.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Two, California, Worry

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's a struggle. It's really, really hard. I'm already nervous for my next one. You have to put more and more movie stars in movies these days. And of course, I would like to have more than $3million to make it. But, again, if that's what I was offered I wouldn't turn it down. I guess studios know that. But I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Stars, Struggle, Next

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.

  Tod Machover

  Exercise, Cds, Pieces

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Worldwide, most people dress more casually these days, don't they? They have done for the last 20 or 30 years, I suppose. So, every place that I go to, the majority of people really wear jeans, trainers, T-shirt - everybody seems to dress more for comfort. Whereas, even in my lifetime, even up to the early-'70s, there was still that thing of dressing up.

  Paul Weller

  Years, Jeans, Dressing Up

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• My favorite would have to be concealer, which I don't think anyone can live without these days. I use the CK One concealer as well as their One color face makeup. It's brilliant. It's super natural, and it makes it look like you don't have any makeup on.

  Lara Stone

  Makeup, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient.

  Gotye

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Groups, Speak

  "Dr. Ben Carson: Health Care Is 'Upside-Down'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Sound, Oracles, Physicist

  "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

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• Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

  Serena Williams

  Kids, Able, Serious

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

  Nick Denton

  Believe, Order, People

  "Why A Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants To Put Gawker Out Of Business". Interview with David Folkenflik, www.npr.org. June 9, 2016.

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• Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

  Joe Arpaio

  Mexican, Mafia, Russian Mafia

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days.

  Louie Giglio

  Easter, Holiday, Two

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Suicidal, Gay

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, People, Focused

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I don't even know of a room that doesn't have a flat-screen TV in it. These are things that just come in environments these days. And if you were going to walk into a space, where did you come from? Was there a bathroom around the corner? These are things that are authentic, and that's what makes successful television. It's not pre-produced garbage. It's believability and connection. The environment has to tell that story.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Successful, Space, Connections

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops.

  Rhys Darby

  Book, Heart, Men

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drug Use, Our Generation, Ethos

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I like Beyoncé because of her tenacity and strength and for giving 1000 percent to her performances, which is a lost art these days. She's cut from the cloth of some of us that really like to perform are cut from. I'm a big Beyoncé fan.

  MC Hammer

  Art, Cutting, Giving

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like, "How do you create art in the system, the way it is?" Looking around the studio film landscape, there are all of these great superhero movies, which is fantastic, especially for my kids, but it's hard to find real art house films in the studio system, these days.

  Matt Bomer

  Art, Real, Reading

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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