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• I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

  Jeff Landry

  White, House, President

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• I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

  Thomas Langmann

  Book, Years, Stories

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• People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

  Bruce Nash

  Tired, Games, People

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• There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Anxiety, Competition, Different

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

  Masa Takayama

  Magazines, Firsts, Newspapers

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• I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Typewriters, Office

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

  Peter York

  Art, Sunday, Suffering

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• Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

  Charles Derber

  Responsibility, Government, Greed

  Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge

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• I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

  Martha Wainwright

  Artist, Sitting Down, Needs

  "Martha Wainwright Makes a Home". Interview with Erin Brady, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.

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• There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

  Francis Arinze

  Culture, World, Tvs

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• Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Art, Cinema, World

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• There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Football, Team, Reality

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• One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

  John Badham

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

  Michael Baden

  Thinking, Drug, Arsenic

  "Sunday Morning" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2003.

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• I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Catholic, Directors

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• One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

  Michael Flanders

  World, Able, Problem

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• The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Japan, Serious

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• The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

  Rouben Mamoulian

  War, Mean, People

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• A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

  Jose Padilha

  Running, Jobs, Law

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• We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Needs, Threat

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.

  Rip Taylor

  Suicide, Watches, Ovens

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• I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Style, Emotion, Agree

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• All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

  Peter Warlock

  Alive, Significant, Ageless

  Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

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