Eras Quotes - Page 36

• We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time.

  John F. Kerry

  Night, Law, People

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• In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

  Henry Blodget

  Numbers, Shows, Knows

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

  Idris Elba

  Actors, World, Likes

  "Idris Elba on ‘Luther’, Movie Possibilities, Neil Cross, His Upcoming Album, and More". Interview with Chrisitna Radish, collider.com. December 10, 2015.

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• What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

  Chris Hayes

  California, Climate, Ordinary

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

  Lance Henriksen

  Distance, Kids, Grandparent

  Source: collider.com

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• How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

  Bill Gates

  Aids Epidemic, Epidemics, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

  Betty Friedan

  Dirty, Careers, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

  Betty Friedan

  Kids, House, Like Me

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Art, Commitment

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• The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.

  Lucas Samaras

  Years, Self, Portraits

  "Lucas Samaras: Father Of The Selfies". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.

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• In a crisis, my family puts aside all its petty differences and hatreds... Because a crisis, is a perfect opportunity to create *new* petty differences and hatreds! My dad's from that era when you lived to 50, your heart exploded and that was that. You know when you cook bacon and you pour the grease into the can? My dad's the can!

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Heart, Opportunity

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

  Dana Gould

  Music, Fun, Party

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• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fighting, Talking, People

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• I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.

  DJ Khaled

  Growing Up, Boys, Roots

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• Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.

  Don Alias

  Mom, Growing Up, School

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• Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

  Joseph Stalin

  Revolution, Imperialism, Marxism

  Joseph Stalin (1954). “The foundations of Leninism: Concerning questions of Leninism”

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• The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Tools, Digital

  Pedro Meyer, Louis Kaplan (2006). “The Real and the True: The Digital Photography of Pedro Meyer”, New Riders Pub

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• When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.

  Bill Gates

  College, Finite Number, Games

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• The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Effort, Joints, Action

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

  Horace Silver

  Swings, Bebop, Broadway

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• An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.

  William J. Mitchell

  Dream, Wall, Plato

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• I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.

  Arjen Anthony Lucassen

  Thinking, Rocks, Vengeance

  "Arjen Lucassen: Human Or Intergalatic Space Crusader?". Interview with Igor Italiani, progressiveworld.net. April 2002.

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• I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

  Eileen Myles

  Generations, Poet, Warhol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's leadership in the world is a force for good. He does not believe that our strength is a place where security can take place. He leads from behind. He creates an environment that now we're creating the most unstable situation we've had since the World War II era.

  Jeb Bush

  War, Believe, Differences

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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