Eras Quotes - Page 34

• I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

  Scott Bakula

  Hair, Play, Different

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Envy, Pieces

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• We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political system. That's what we need to change.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Technology, People, Political

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

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• ... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Technology, Accepting

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• The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.

  George W. Bush

  Integrity, Ethical Standards, America

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• It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.

  Albert Einstein

  Theoretical Physics, Clerks, Fields

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• If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

  Tom Peters

  Mars, Flaws, Failing

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• It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Remember, Difficulty, Originals

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.80

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• I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Heart, Fighting, Rays

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• The Chinese Government and I myself have always attached great importance to China-U.S. relations. In the new historic era, I look forward to working together with you to continuously strengthen dialogue and exchanges between our two countries.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Government, Two

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• I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

  Andrew Strauss

  Play, Proud, Moments

  "Andrew Strauss retires from all forms of cricket - as it happened" by Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sex, Hate, Ignorance

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• I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

  Klaus Nomi

  Wicked, Witch, Wicked Witch

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• One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Anxiety, Feelings, Sides

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• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Gentleman, Tables, Table Manners

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• Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of humanity and poetry?

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Technology, Hype

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• The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.

  Gautama Buddha

  Secret, Helping, Fortitude

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• The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Fate, Compassion

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• The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

  Stephen Covey

  Profound, Challenges, World

  "The (R)evolution of 'What and Why' Into 'Who'” by Val Jon Farris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Teenage, Pregnancy, Boys

  "School as Wonder, or Way Out" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2012.

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• We must never let fear... divert us from our faith and faithful living. Every person in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty. This is the plan. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Names, Faithful, Needs

  "This, the Greatest of All Dispensations". Fireside address, www.lds.org. July 2007.

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• Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Kind

  Source: www.today.com

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• We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

  John Zerzan

  Real, Community, Connections

  "'We don't know what's going to happen. If we say we're doomed, we are, full stop.' A Q&A with John Zerzan and Zander Sherman". logger.believermag.com. December 4, 2015.

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• An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Men, America, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.

  Rockne S. O'Bannon

  Fans, Cinema, Heat

  Source: collider.com

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