Quotes About Modern

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.

I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

Life must have sucked growing up without TV." "Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't control. . . Nowadays we're much more impatient for our impotence.

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

Beyond the curiosity and the problem-solving challenge fundamental to good research, I believe that the fantasy of controlling nature lies at the very basis of modern science.

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Man or boy, woman or girl, they had for a moment taken hold of the thing that makes the mature life of men and women in the modern world possible.

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

It is not unreasonable that in contact with modern science, and inspired by the spirit of history, the original discoveries of Gautama, rigorized and extended, will play a large part in the direction of human destiny.

He was a rationalist, he downplayed the role of authority, and he was critical of the inequities of the caste system as it existed then. He was the only religious leader in the history of the world who asked people not to follow his teachings based on his authority. That's a quite modern, egalitarian, and refreshing point of view.