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.
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.
Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.
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.
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
Stress is the trash of modern life-we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
Music, brings the soul alive. Music promotes wellness and sound mind.
The music world is where child prodigies go to die.
I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.