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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
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You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time
Brian De Palma
3.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
Anita Diament
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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
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
Gabriel Marcel
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The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
Alexander Stoddart
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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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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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Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
Henry Ford
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
Orlando Bloom
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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
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
David Hockney
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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
Jeff Goldblum
16.
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
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So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.
Jay Nordlinger
18.
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
Frankie Valli
19.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
20.
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison
21.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
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Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
Donald Tusk
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Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Madame de Stael
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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
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It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
Fabio Novembre
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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
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I read very little contemporary anything.
Alan Furst
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I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.
David Bowie
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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
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
Bob Geldof
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No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
Dyllan McGee
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I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
Rem Koolhaas
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You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
Noah Baumbach
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My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.
Elliott Carter
40.
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
Harold Prince
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I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.
Megan Chance
42.
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
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The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.
Mike Greenberg
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I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
Paul Merton
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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
William March
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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
48.
I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
Colin Meloy
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Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.
DJ Spooky
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I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
Gore Vidal