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Quotes About Modern

People like me make modern life intolerable.
~ Giles Coren
Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.
~ Dawn Foster
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
~ Michael Leunig
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.
~ J. G. Ballard
You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
~ Anand Mahindra
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
~ David Blunkett
I actually like social media, and I recognize what modern technology serves.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
~ Guillermo del Toro
We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
~ Chris Stapleton
There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'
~ Jeb Bush
Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and still considered himself culturally Jewish: Cardinal Lustiger.
~ Tom Reiss
Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period drama with a core of modern times.
~ Claudia Jessie
Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.
~ Sonny Mehta
I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The book was about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. I am glad that India seems to be looking back at me with a grin.
~ Twinkle Khanna
Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
~ Aslaug Magnusdottir
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
~ Andrew Dominik
Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
~ Cate Blanchett
We lack rituals in this modern world.
~ Elizabeth McGovern
To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.
~ Gad Saad
I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that.
~ Steven Van Zandt
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
~ Chris Martin
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
~ Julian Fellowes
What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?
~ Emilia Wickstead
I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.
~ Anoushka Shankar