21st Century Quotes - Page 7

• I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi.

  Jorge Valdano

  Believe, Messi, Genius

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• What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Perfection, Anxiety

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having constant choice, painting simply sits there silently and begs you to notice the smallest of detail.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Moving, Choices, Details

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, Humanity, Lessons

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• I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Century, Clear

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Truth, Survival, United States

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• If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

  David Hood

  Learning, Doe, Demand

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• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

  Jack Kemp

  Skills, America, Immigration

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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• Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Procrastination, Hunting, Issues

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• As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.

  Floyd E. Bloom

  Adventure, Space, Brain

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• A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Heart

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• The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

  Pope Francis

  People, Firsts, Genocide

  "Pope Francis Speaks Of 'Genocide' In Armenia Visit". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Order, Challenges

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

  David Batstone

  Journey, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Believe, Justice, Needs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.

  Joe Biden

  Stories, Energy, Reason

  "Full video and transcript: Rachel Maddow interviews Vice President Joe Biden". Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at all based on health or what the preferences of different cultures might be? That's just ridiculous.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Different, Culture, Want

  Source: sojo.net

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• Today is just to the beginning of a long and overdue national discussion on how to protect ourselves from modern cyber crime and evolving national security threats and how to develop the cyber offense strategies necessary to gain a critical security edge in the 21st century. We need the edge, and ideally, a big one.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Needs, Today

  Source: time.com

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• We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

  Susan George

  Running, Ideas, Trying

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• The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

  Sylvia Earle

  Fishing, Long, Century

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• I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mediocrity, Century, Bureaucracy

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• President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Responsibility, Opportunity

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Girl, Badass

  "The Hillary Doctrine". Interview with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.

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