Quotes with late-twentieth-century

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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Candice Millard Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Sydney Joseph Perelman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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  • Margaret Mead Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Stephen Leacock Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Lord George Byron Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ba Jin Literary witness to century of turmoil in China Daily
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Oscar Wilde Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antonia Fraser Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Bob Newhart Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Catton Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Albion W. Small Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
    Albion W. Small
    American sociologist and editor (1854 - 1926)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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