quotes about Contemporary
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
I read very little contemporary anything.
-- Alan FurstSource : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.
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Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
-- Anish Kapoor -
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
-- Anthony Braxton -
All history is contemporary history.
-- Benedetto CroceSource : Benedetto Croce (1922). “Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
-- Bob Geldof -
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time
-- Brian De PalmaSource : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
-- Donald Tusk -
It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
-- Fabio Novembre -
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
-- Frankie Valli -
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
-- Gabriel Marcel -
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Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
-- Giorgio Agamben -
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
-- Gore Vidal -
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
-- Harold Prince -
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
-- Henry Ford -
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My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
-- Herbert Bayer -
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
-- Herbert Marcuse -
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,
-- John Bonham -
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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
-- Jonathan Coe -
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr. -
The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.
-- Mike Greenberg -
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
-- Noah Baumbach -
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
-- Orlando Bloom -
I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
-- Paul Merton -
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
-- Rem Koolhaas -
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.
-- Saul Kripke -
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If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
-- Warren Ellis -
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
-- William MarchSource : William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press
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No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
-- Dyllan McGee -
It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.
-- Peter Clewes -
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Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.
-- DJ SpookySource : "Explorers. What Is Your Passion?" by DJ Spooky, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
-- Emily James Smith Putnam -
So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.
-- Jay Nordlinger -
I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!
-- Luis GonzalezSource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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