Generations Quotes - Page 29

• We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Taken, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who I am, if I sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Book, Eight, Who I Am

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no longer needed. My gosh, they are indeed. But this becomes a real engine for hypothesis generation and even for proof if you have interventions that you can carry out in this kind of large scale and conduct them in a rigorous way. I guess, yeah, it's different. But it's different in a good way.

  Francis Collins

  Real, Unique, Doors

  Source: www.politico.com

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• So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Memories, Book, Kids

  "Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The “The African Americans” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. October 15, 2013.

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• What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food? Is it an important medicine? What can it do for future generations - or present generations?

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Ecosystems, Medicine, Important

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• To ensure that future generations have the opportunity to make a living from the creation of music, it is critical that we continue to build support behind this important initiative. Thousands of people have already voiced their opinion that it is time to vigorously defend the rights of music creators. Our goal now is to empower thousands more to carry this message forward.

  Keri Hilson

  Opportunity, Rights, People

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• It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

  Carole King

  Artist, Gone, Common

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• I respect everything H3 has already accomplished and respect everything he's trying to get done. We're building a real HOME for the Hip Hop generation complete with all the things we love to do. But it's really about creating educational opportunity and good jobs and that's where Team H3 will prove to be unbeatable.

  Juelz Santana

  Jobs, Real, Educational

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• I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

  Kevin Hart

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

  Kevin Hart

  Appreciate, Fans, Vines

  "Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, and the Cast of THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Talk Sequels, Improvisation, and Filming in a Casino in Our Set Visit Interview". Group interview, collider.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

  Thomas Paine

  Age

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man”, p.11

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• The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lists, Hayek, Economic

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• If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Firsts, Succeed

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.29

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• I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Our Generation, Eerie, Silence

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• I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Degrees, Obsolescence

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• There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Baby, Couple, Cutting

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• I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

  Rachel Bilson

  Nice, Family History, Neat

  "Rachel Bilson Talks ‘Hart Of Dixie,’ Kugel And Justin Bieber" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Technology, Voice, America

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

  Patton Oswalt

  Happy Life, Media, People

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• I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Real, Educational

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• I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Dream, Home, People

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• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  William S. Burroughs

  Song, Thinking, Play

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