Eras Quotes - Page 21

• I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

  Carey Mulligan

  Drama, Different, Done

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• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Echoes, Events, Half

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Memorial, Generations

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• The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

  Karl Marx

  Hunting, Discovery, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.823, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Past, Ideas, Doe

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”

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• The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time.

  Tom Ford

  Shoes, Accessories, Looks

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• We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

  Tony Bennett

  Money, Jobs, Artist

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• Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.

  Tony Bennett

  Romantic, Music, Style

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• I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Eye, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

  John Ensign

  Children, Debt, Levels

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• I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Hurt, Sorry, Player

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• The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Government, People, Support

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• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  War, Moscow, Firsts

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• When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

  Ben Okri

  Deities, Chaos, Chiefs

  Ben Okri (2015). “Stars Of The New Curfew”, p.71, Random House

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• We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.

  Alex Jones

  New York, Years, Organization

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• We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

  Gerald Nicosia

  People, Censorship, Patriot

  "50 years later, 'Howl' still resonates". www.today.com. October 6, 2005.

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• It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

  Colin MacInnes

  Teenage, Epic, London

  Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

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• Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

  Fernando Botero

  Spiritual, Wall, Men

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• We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  New Year, Holiday, Today

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• It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Government, Spy

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• The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Justice, Priorities

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

  Rachel Carson

  Dollars, Cost, Silent Spring

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Clothes, Important, Architecture

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