Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
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The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.
Richard Mille
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The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.
Sophia Amoruso
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
Zachary Levi
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I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.
Morena Baccarin
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Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
Steven Gaines
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
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I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.
Lianne La Havas
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The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
Simon Schama
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
Kenzaburo Oe
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Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
Tom Stoppard
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
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I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
Julie Harris
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I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
Robin Day
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
Ophelia Lovibond
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The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
Jane Leavy
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Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Robert Winston
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
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The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.
James Mercer
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I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.
Rupert Evans
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.
Guy Standing
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In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.
Mick Foley
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