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In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck (Contemporary Quotes)
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances (Contemporary Quotes)
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations (Contemporary Quotes)
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not (Contemporary Quotes)
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization (Contemporary Quotes)
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old (Contemporary Quotes)
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing (Contemporary Quotes)
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people (Contemporary Quotes)
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles (Contemporary Quotes)
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage (Contemporary Quotes)
Most fiction writers uses dreams decoratively without relating them to daily life, but the contemporary writer is becoming more expert at detecting the influence of one upon the other (Contemporary Quotes)
The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting (Contemporary Quotes)
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can’t do it. They don’t have the chops (Contemporary Quotes)
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense (Contemporary Quotes)
One way of looking at poetic periods is to notice what contemporary interests and knowledge penetrate the best verse written at the time and what moods are permitted in treating of these matters (Contemporary Quotes)
The forces of being remain. They are what the writer, as distinct from the contemporary popular mythmaker, still engage today, as myth in its ancient form attempted to do (Contemporary Quotes)
The various aspects of decadence cannot be turned into functions of the economy and neither can they be grasped without relating them to this dynamic part of contemporary life (Contemporary Quotes)
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art (Contemporary Quotes)
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing (Contemporary Quotes)
I have a really amazing fan club, it’s contemporary but it’s a little bit old school. There’s a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people (Contemporary Quotes)
It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners (Contemporary Quotes)
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord’s song in a strange land (Contemporary Quotes)
All the pictures I do are contemporary. I’ve sort of discovered I haven’t really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part (Contemporary Quotes)
Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church (Contemporary Quotes)
I’m a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar (Contemporary Quotes)
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet (Contemporary Quotes)
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest (Contemporary Quotes)
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry (Contemporary Quotes)
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished (Contemporary Quotes)
No, it’s interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it’s a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don’t just take the title and change everything else (Contemporary Quotes)