Eras Quotes - Page 30

• We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, America, Might

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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• The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

  Martin Nolan

  Baseball, Stars, Quilts

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• The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.

  Yair Lapid

  Change, Issues, Majority

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• The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  School, White Privilege, Racism

  "The new threat: 'Racism without racists'". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.

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• Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

  David Korten

  Cutting, Innovation, Environmental

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• When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

  Lisa Kristine

  War, Past, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Oct 16, 2013

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• At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the west towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

  Martin Jacques

  Heart, Other Cultures, Colonialism

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without ever doing it at someone else's expense, and I think that that's a really important thing for kids to realize.

  Jason Segel

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Creating, Russia, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Hero, Angel, Kgb

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

  Rob Nilsson

  Artist, Technique, Pieces

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• I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

  John Dykstra

  Thinking, Important, Particular

  "VFX Legend John Dykstra On ‘X-Men: First Class’, ‘Spider-Man’ & ‘Caddyshack’ Gophers". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.

  John Dykstra

  Real, Airplane, Motorcycle

  Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

  Will Forte

  Stupid, Inspiration, Names

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• President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, "talk to each other in ways that heal, not in ways that wound," close quote.

  Eric Bolling

  Political, President, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.

  Eric Bolling

  Advice, President, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Hate, Trying, Miley

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

  Tony Abbott

  Phones, Email, China

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Littles, Spaghetti, Scope

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Mean, Fighting, Political

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Men, Civilization

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• The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.

  Steven Spielberg

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

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• Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

  Barbara Bush

  Family, Mother, Children

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Keys, Europe, January

  "Welcome to Euroland" by Alex Brummer, Mark Milner, Martin Walker, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 1999.

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