All Quotes

In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
‐‐ Gary Jennings

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.
‐‐ David Gerrold

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
‐‐ Kofi Annan

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
‐‐ Bertrand Piccard

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
‐‐ Mark Hyman

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
‐‐ Eddie Obeng

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
‐‐ Joe Biden

In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.
‐‐ James G. Stavridis

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
‐‐ Jeremiah Wright

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
‐‐ Beth Simone Noveck

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.
‐‐ Marc Faber

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.
‐‐ Stephen Graham Jones

In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
‐‐ Don Rickles

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
‐‐ Patrick J. Kennedy

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.
‐‐ Tom Shales

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.
‐‐ Helen Reddy

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
‐‐ Jim Lee

In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
‐‐ Kenneth Noland

In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.
‐‐ Robin Givhan

In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.
‐‐ Betsey Johnson

In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

In the '60s and '70s and early '80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something - they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.
‐‐ John le Carre

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.
‐‐ Jerry Jeff Walker

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
‐‐ Patti Smith

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
‐‐ Barry Bostwick

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
‐‐ Maggie Gallagher

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
‐‐ Yoko Ono

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
‐‐ Christian de Portzamparc

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.
‐‐ George Clooney