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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed
Desiderius Erasmus
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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
Auberon Waugh
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One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one`s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Keywords: and :: can :: death :: down :: everything :: except :: good :: live :: nowadays :: one :: reputation :: surviveSubject: Reputation QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one`s mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
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Nowadays you`d have many battles before you blow it up, but eventually you`d take it down. And that`s okay, I don`t heavily quarrel with that, but for me personally, having made films for years and directed for 33 years, it just seems to me that I long fo...
Clint Eastwood
Keywords: 33 :: and :: battles :: before :: blow :: but :: directed :: don :: down :: eventually :: films :: for :: have :: having :: heavily :: it :: just :: long :: made :: many :: me :: nowadays :: okay :: peop :: personally :: quarrel :: seems :: take :: that :: to :: up :: with :: years :: youSource: imdb.com
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In those days, trousers were appallingly cut for women so I used to go to a gentlemen`s tailor to have them made. Nowadays you can look at some quite highly priced clothes and be astonished at how badly they are finished. But then, people don`t look for t...
Diana Rigg
Keywords: and :: appallingly :: are :: astonished :: at :: badly :: be :: but :: can :: clothes :: cut :: days :: don :: finished :: for :: gentlemen :: go :: have :: highly :: how :: in :: look :: made :: nowadays :: people :: priced :: quite :: so :: some :: tailor :: that :: them :: then :: they :: those :: to :: trousers :: used :: were :: women :: youSource: imdb.com
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The music these kids play nowadays, it`s nothing but screaming and pounding drums! You can`t hear the words, and that`s just as well, because the words stink!
Jane Russell
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To be in the hands of an auteur like [Andrei Tarkovsky], that would be just brilliant. But I don`t know if those kind of films can ever be made any more. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningl...
Emily Mortimer
Keywords: an :: andrei :: any :: anything :: art :: auteur :: be :: books :: brilliant :: but :: can :: cinema :: don :: ever :: films :: get :: grapples :: hands :: if :: in :: just :: kind :: know :: like :: made :: meaningless :: more :: nowadays :: of :: or :: possibility :: tarkovsky :: that :: the :: those :: to :: uni :: with :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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I always say there`s no more little girls, just boys with (breasts). Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They`re predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls.
Chris Rock
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I`m a very simple man. You`ve got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off...and the nightmare continues.
Ozzy Osbourne
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[in a 1987 interview] When people nowadays say that [Elvis Presley] was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of "That`s My Desire", they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded blac...
Frankie Laine
Keywords: 1987 :: around :: at :: black :: can :: desire :: do :: elvis :: first :: guy :: have :: head :: in :: interview :: my :: nowadays :: of :: only :: people :: presley :: say :: saying :: shake :: sound :: sounded :: that :: the :: they :: time :: to :: was :: were :: what :: when :: white :: who :: youSource: imdb.com
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Nowadays, record companies want the quick buck from the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Steps. They`ve always been around, I`m not knocking the music perhaps, but it`s like packets of cereal. There are too many of them, too many of them are jus...
Elton John
Keywords: always :: are :: around :: backstreet :: been :: boys :: britney :: buck :: but :: cereal :: club :: companies :: from :: it :: just :: knocking :: like :: many :: mediocr :: music :: not :: nowadays :: of :: packets :: perhaps :: quick :: record :: spears :: steps :: the :: them :: there :: they :: too :: ve :: wantSource: imdb.com
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I`m an easy target, especially nowadays. You`d be hard pressed to find many in the media or the music business who`ll own up to liking me and my music. Especially in the UK. Although I have met a lot of R&B singers in the States who are very kind about wh...
Phil Collins
Keywords: about :: although :: an :: and :: are :: be :: business :: easy :: especially :: find :: hard :: have :: in :: kind :: liking :: ll :: lot :: many :: me :: media :: met :: music :: my :: nowadays :: of :: or :: own :: pressed :: singers :: states :: target :: the :: to :: uk :: up :: very :: what :: who :: youSource: imdb.com
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Most of cinema nowadays is about shooting a lot and then figuring it out in the cutting room, rather than seeing your film it the head and see what`s in your head and not shoot what you have already envisioned in your head.
Alfonso Cuaron
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People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with special effects. I couldn`t do that. I quit smoking because I couldn`t reload my Zippo.
Billy Wilder
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I suppose nowadays it`s all a question of surgery, isn`t it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the...
Johnny Depp
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But nowadays I`m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody`s like I can reverse the polari...
Joss Whedon
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There was a time when all I looked for was a good story, but nowadays everything has to look like the size of Mount Rushmore, and the actors in close- up look as though they belong there.
Fritz Lang
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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
Peter Greenaway
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You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.
Keenen Wayans
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You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody`s crazy.
Charles Manson
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You just don`t see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
Taye Diggs
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You have to be a producer nowadays. You have to find the subject, find the writer, find the cameraman, cast it, and then you go to a producer.
Vincente Minnelli
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry
Subject: Music QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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When you`re used to playing with people, when you`re in a band, then you`re used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren`t used to playing with each other because they don`t have to.
Bootsy Collins
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What`s taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.
Al Sorrentino
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Aluf Ben
