Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
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I always think the great thing about shirting is that it goes with jeans, and jeans are probably the most modern, functional garment that ever existed. That is what is so great about shirting - it is an up-play-down-play.
Jonathan Anderson
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Camille Paglia
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I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.'
Fred Willard
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A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
Donnie Yen
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'The Shining' is operatic and sensational and... really shocking. It has this amazing meld of classical music and modern interpretations of classical music, and incredible imagery. From the set design to the costumes, there's so much to unpack.
Dan Smith
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
Emmanuel Jal
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Christopher Lasch
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We lack rituals in this modern world.
Elizabeth McGovern
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The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
Claudio Monteverdi
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
David Rockefeller
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One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
Brian Azzarello
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
Charlie Sykes
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Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in 'Modern Warfare 2,' and they didn't really get the credit for that.
Bobby Kotick
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
Billy Bragg
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Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
Alexander McQueen
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As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.
Arthur Kornberg
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Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
Jim Diamond
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I love art; I collect mostly modern art.
Alan Patricof
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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.
Jessica Chastain
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I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.
Will Carling
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Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
Pranab Mukherjee
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