Top 1200 Contemporary Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 26, 2024.
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.
I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises.
I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.
The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
I modeled my work after contemporary masters of art house cinema but felt my voice was missing.
I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
Contemporary anti-Semites claim they have nothing against Jews - they just hate the Jewish state.
That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.
In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music.
Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
