#modern

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#children #cynics #entrust #harm #minds

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#dance #i #modern #modern dance #used

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. ↗

— Maria Jeritza

#case #demands #dramatic #every #exertion

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#aware #basically #build #china #country

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. ↗

— Daymond John

#business #buzz #ceo #country #day

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#first #important #modern #more #mostly

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#condition #dead #defined #god #modernism

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#advocate #believe #enactment #essential #former