Quotes with late-twentieth-century

Quotes 161 till 180 of 325.

  • Ben Hecht Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bobby Clarke My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
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  • Jean Paul Getty My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Mysterious Flood, that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century, Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Leon Edel Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Aaron McGruder One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Bill Dedman One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bill Clinton Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
    Second inaugural address
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • John Berger Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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