Modern Quotes

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

Antonin Scalia

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Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet.

Alex Pareene

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Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Atul Gawande

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I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

Aldis Hodge

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Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.

William Sanderson

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Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Jerry Saltz

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I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

William Eggleston

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I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

Phyllis Smith

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Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

John Buchanan Robinson

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Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

Terry Eagleton

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I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.

Peter Marino

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What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

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I think the old classic Porsches are fantastic, with those lovely curved lines, but I don't like the modern ones at all.

Sarah Alexander

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I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

Shelby Lynne

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Neville Marriner

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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Twyla Tharp

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I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro - all maybe in a week's time.

Anat Cohen

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The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

Laurie Colwin

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We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet. And I think now we're making the first modern smartwatch.

Tim Cook

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A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

John Lanchester

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I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.

Jade Jagger

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I love the modern technology now.

Ringo Starr

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The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Robert Gottlieb

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