21st Century Quotes - Page 11

• What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a very clear way for somebody who's working-class, who is middle-income to really get ahead in 21st century America. That implicates our education system. It also implicates our local and regional economies. And I think that folks will expect Trump to fix a lot of those things. But, of course, it's a really tall order, and it's not going to happen overnight.

  James Vance

  Thinking, Economy, Education System

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Religious, Different, Different Place

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Block, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...

  Stuart Rose

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

  "Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose: 'I'm like a £3.49 chicken jalfrezi! It's got punch, it's got zest, and it's just fabulous to be with'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Average, America

  "Q&A with Naomi Wolf: equal pay for women" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2012.

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• We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.

  Aberjhani

  War, Communication, People

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

  Edward James Olmos

  Looks, Violent, Century

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• In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

  Timothy Leary

  Communication, Creativity, Successful

  Timothy Leary (2010). “The Politics of Self-Determination”, p.74, Ronin Publishing

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• Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Faces, Century

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• he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

  Philip Reeve

  Cutting, Animal, Past

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• I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Century, Trapped

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Wall, Party

  "As coherent an articulation of our economic problem as any I have seen in my lifetime" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Self, Cards, Credit

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

  Julian Baggini

  Art, Lessons, Als

  "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.

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• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Order, Inspire

  "Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

  Julia Roberts

  Struggle, Simple, 80s And 90s

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• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  E. O. Wilson

  Two, Challenges, Majority

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• I am a child of the 21st century.

  John Shelby Spong

  Children, Century

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Movement, World, Century

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• In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Kitchen, Brain, Taste Buds

  "The Last Diet You Will Ever Need" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

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• Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Responsibility, Character

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• I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.

  Paul Levinson

  Believe, Commitment, Thinking

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• One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

  Frank Rich

  News, Century, Tics

  "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2009.

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