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Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court. ”
The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, 'Why is she wearing this?' or 'Why isn't she wearing that?' or 'Why does she talk like that?' That's the worst because they're judging for no reason. ”
My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation. ”
When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids. ”
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection. ”
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ”
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ”
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ”
I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment. ”
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere. ”