Eras Quotes

• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Style, Together

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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• We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Phases, Integration

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• A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Character, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Baby, Long, Certain

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.278, Random House

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• Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moving, Conflict, Negotiation

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• It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Aquariums, Organization, Essentials

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

  Rob Morrow

  Stars, War, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Country, Believe, Iraq

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• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  Tanya Tucker

  Weak, Grew Up, Psychiatrist

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• Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

  Martin Fry

  Song, Used, Resources

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• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  Ogden Nash

  News, Wrong Person, Persons

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

  Peter Asher

  Thinking, Lasts, Wells

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• Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Long, Bosnia

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• The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Common Humanity, Interesting, Peaceful

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• In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Heart, Fire, World

  Charles Kendall Adams (1892). “Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  Vin Diesel

  Kids, Games, Play

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• For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Opportunity, Race

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama: 'He struggled to create hope - and succeeded'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Two, Return

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

  Mary Livermore

  Justice, Humanity, Slavery

  Mary A. Livermore (2016). “The Story of My Life: Sunshine and Shadows of Seventy Years”, p.373, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

  Eva Burrows

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

  Clement Mok

  Mean, Technology, Order

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• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  Maggie Smith

  Lucky, Granny

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.

  Zac Posen

  Fashion, Clothing Style, New Era

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• Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

  Clement Mok

  Design Process, Digital, Design And Art

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• I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

  Roland Barthes

  Passion, Mean, Thinking

  Mythologies "La Nouvelle Citroen" (1957) (translation by Annette Lavers)

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