Eras Quotes - Page 20

• There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

  Herbert Read

  Country, Believe, Numbers

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• I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

  Fred Seibert

  Albums, Coins, Matter

  "Cartoon Hangover Creator Fred Seibert On How You Too Can Get Your Cartoon On The Internet". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2013.

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• For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.

  Howard Stringer

  Real, World, Digital

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• I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Fun, People, Together

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• We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mean, Climate, Entering

  "Four years on, Katrina remains cursed by rumour, cliche, lies and racism" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2009.

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• You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, School, Study

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• Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Night, Rapper, Ipods

  "British Rapper Tinie Tempah Gets Up Close & Personal With Serial Optimist". Interview with Rawiya Kameir, www.serialoptimist.com. December 16, 2010.

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• We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

  Eddie Vedder

  Real, Rocks, Guy

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• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Strong, America

  "Voight: My Concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

  Allison Williams

  Thinking, Self, Dresses

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• I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!

  Theo Walcott

  Dad, Growing Up, Team

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• Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

  Brad Meltzer

  Eye, President, Modern

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Space, Three

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• The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Thinking, Race, Political

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• The
  blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic
  technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within
  an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new
  ...design science for the post-petroleum era.

  John Todd

  Technology, Wind, Creating

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• There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

  Marilyn Manson

  Tvs, Faces, Villain

  "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

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• Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Cells, Different

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

  Abdullah Ocalan

  Borders, Ends, Should

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• The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Ideas, Want

  "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

  Graham Yost

  Believe, Thinking, Television

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Justified’s Graham Yost on the Full House Writers’ Room and Learning to Collaborate". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

  Roy Wood

  Song, Way, Wells

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• When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.

  Joseph Hertz

  Christian, Writing, Years

  Isidore Epstein, Joseph Herman Hertz (1935). “The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma”

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