These Days Quotes - Page 6

• I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Grace, Dollars

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

  Marc Guggenheim

  World, Angry

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

  Frank Gehry

  Sports, Play, Two

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Play, Track, Houston

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that you'll hear throughout the episodes and the season in the show. I write all my music, I'm an independent artist so we do it all in-house and that song embodies exactly what the title says.

  Mike Stud

  Song, Writing, Independent

  Source: www.axs.com

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• We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

  Chuck Todd

  Violence, Threat, Terror

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Soccer, Father, Kids

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, People, Occupation

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

  Peter M. Lenkov

  Television, Titles, Bigs

  "Interview: ‘MacGyver’ Producers James Wan & Peter Lenkov on Pilot Reshoots, the Theme Song, and Updating a Classic". Interview with Fred Topel, www.slashfilm.com. September 23, 2016.

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• That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.

  Peter M. Lenkov

  Song, Winning, Battle

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves

  Wings, Racism, Littles

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, African American, United States

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

  Mary GrandPre

  Kids, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Dutch, Economy, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

  Michael Hudson

  Order, Fairytale, Rich

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I hate to break this to you: One of these days I'm going to die. I expect that when I croak I'll no longer be using Twitter, unless I can do it from the grave.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hate, Break, Graves

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.

  Debra Hamel

  Daughter, Two, Two Daughters

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Records, Eclectic

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• People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Attention, Littles

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• I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Boredom, Different

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

  Charlie Brooker

  Children, Book, Bedtime

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Vocabulary, People

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Distance, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such a tentative, fishing-hook way to go about it that these days I've found it's easier to kind of at least have your concept and start attaching things to a skeleton. So I try to find the armature, the kind of backbone of it first that you can start to hang those scenes on.

  Shane Black

  Writing, Skeletons, Fishing

  Source: collider.com

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