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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.


Richard Rogers
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
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Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
Vera Wang
I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.


Theodor Adorno
I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
Christian Slater
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I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.
Susan Collins
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.


Philip Johnson
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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
Brian Greene
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.


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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.


Ulrich Beck
Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.
Charles Spurgeon
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