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I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.


Samantha Barks


#bands #began #choirs #church #clarinet

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.


Dave Barry


#about #advice #defined #listen #modern

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.


Charles Baudelaire


#being #contingent #eternal #fleeting #half

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.


Charles Baudelaire


#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.


John Berger


#character #death #itself #modern #notion

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.


Ambrose Bierce


#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?


Clara Zetkin


#domestic #find #just #livelihood #machines

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.


Stephen Covey


#challenge #faced #man #modern #modern man

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.


Barbara Boxer


#basic #basic rights #denial #development #economic

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.


Paul Bremer


#allies #came #deal #decade #early






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