I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Tyler Durden: Well you did lose a lot of versatile solutions for modern living
John Oldman: Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.
I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
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.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
