21st Century Quotes - Page 13

• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Cities, Design, Needs

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Feminist, Feminism

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

  Studs Terkel

  Country, Powerful, 20th Century

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• TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

  Kurt Andersen

  Intellectual, Wonderful, Century

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• I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

  Seth MacFarlane

  Atheist, Believe, Men

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• I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

  Mitt Romney

  America, Leader, World

  "Romney suspends White House bid". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2008.

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• A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Book, Character, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century.

  Pascal Lamy

  Country, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Someday

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Book, Red Flags

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• It's a mistake to get too narrow too fast. Kids today, many of them will live past 100, and you cant predict what you might work on. The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

  Megan Smith

  Mistake, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

  Eric Ries

  Educational, Hard Work, People

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• The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

  Bruce Sterling

  Ruins, Century, Frontiers

  "Derelict power plants become Luc Besson's eurocinema wonderland" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. May 16, 2008.

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• Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

  How to Dress Well

  Past, Technology, Profound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

  Phil Cooke

  Inspirational, Attention, Commodity

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• In the world of today, I think that entrepreneurs are the new emerging ruling class - I identify it as the startup class. That's the new proletariat of the 21st century. These are the people that are the drivers of the change.

  Ilya Ponomarev

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Defeat, Ideology

  "Bush On Iraq Today: 'I Would Guess, I Would Surmise That Some Of The More Spectacular Bombings Are Done By Al Qaeda Suiciders'". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I remember, right after Hezbollah launched its rocket attacks on Israel, I said: This is a clarifying moment; this is a chance for the world to see the threats of the 21st century, the challenge we face.

  George W. Bush

  Challenges, World, Chance

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• With the arrival of the refugees in 2015, it became impossible to ignore that the period of uninterrupted sunshine that Germany had enjoyed had come to an end. The vast problems of the 21st century are knocking on our door. That is also true of the dramatic changes that we can see globally, for example with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. You can't win people over by saying nothing and biding your time, as Angela Merkel has tried to do. People want leadership - in the best sense of the term.

  Joschka Fischer

  Sunshine, Winning, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Although there are some parallels to the problems that we're seeing now and what we say back in the '30s, no period is exactly the same. For us to simply recreate what existed back in the '30s in the 21st century, I think would be missing the boat. We've gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment. And that's gonna be our job. I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick starting an economy that has ground to a halt is sound.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Missing, Boat

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at least waning - of less successful, and ultimately less "just," political and economic systems. At the turn of the 21st century we appear to be entering our greatest century, a golden age. The challenge that we face is similar to that of the Classic Maya civilization: we have set in motion a "runaway train" of success.

  Arthur Demarest

  War, Successful, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I continue to believe that America is better positioned than any country on the planet to lead in the 21st century, but we do have to be bold. And actually, our platform in the Democratic Party is pretty darn bold, and folks from Senator Sanders' coalition and Secretary Clinton's coalition came together around that platform.

  Thomas Perez

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by existing regulations, and we want to give them 21st century regulations on start-up governments.

  Joe Quirk

  Government, Giving, Valleys

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

  Laura Bates

  Live Life, Thinking, Violence

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• The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Fate, Reality, Challenges

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