Today Quotes - Page 17

• The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Shopping, Wife

  'The Price' (1968) act 1

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• Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

  Red Skelton

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shock, Dare

  René Huyghe, Paul Gauguin (1977). “Gauguin”

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• Today the discredit of words is very great.

  John Berger

  Hijacking, Discredit

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• The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ideas, Nuisance

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• I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

  Wendell Phillips

  Believe, Yesterday, Belief

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• Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Hurt, Determination, Action

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• Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

  Sam Keen

  Men, Doe, Yeast

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.5, Bantam

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• The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dying, Burning, Done

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

  Francis Maude

  Optimism, Tunes, Want

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• Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

  Warren Buffett

  Toilets, Succeed, Cleaning

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Chance

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.

  David Hockney

  Mistake, Perspective, World

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• I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

  Grandma Moses

  Good Day, Yesterday, Done

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Reading, Exercise, Television Watching

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• It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Portraiture, Paint

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.33, Taschen

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• Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

  Bill Joy

  Running, Care, Computer

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• Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

  Dale E. Turner

  Peace, Real, War

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• It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Oneness, Unity

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• It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Men, Underprivileged

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

  George Brett

  Winning, Yankees, Years

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• Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Selling, Aim

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• Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.

  Scott Dixon

  Car, Want, Formulas

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• Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Accomplish, Satisfied

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