20th Century Quotes - Page 20

• In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

  Jon Porter

  Pregnancy, Community, Facts

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• Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

  Jon Porter

  Home, Holocaust, Community

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• We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

  Robert Morgan

  Long, People, Narrative

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• If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

  Robert Altman

  Foxes, Kind, Film

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Kids, Way

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Revolution, Century, Sexual Revolution

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• The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Sex, Female, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Song, Writing, Century

  "Music, Influence, and "Deeply Unnecessary" Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.

  Walter Kasper

  War, Two, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found common cause in fighting the bigotry both communities faced earlier in the 20th century. However, white skin privilege among the Irish separated them from blacks, who had no such advantage to fall back upon. The solution is to fight bigotry and racism wherever they appear, and to root out the forces of oppression as conscientiously as possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Fall, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Angela Merkel embodies Germany's 20th century fate. It is not up to me to pass judgment on her place in history, but I believe that she is the chancellor of Germany's reconciliation with Europe. She stands for a Germany for whom globalization has been a success and which accepts its role in foreign and defense policy. I thought the way she dealt with the refugees was courageous. I think she is the chancellor of reconciliation.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

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• When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art is no different. I love to derive inspiration from all types of images: mosaics, hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, woven patterns in textiles, and needlework. There is a lot of very good "pixel" design work before the 20th century, like a 1760 sampler by Elizabeth Laidman that looks like a bitmap font.

  Susan Kare

  Art, Inspiration, Design

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.

  Terry Teachout

  Mean, Important, Jazz

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

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• It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

  Clifford Geertz

  Looks, Done, Amusing

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• The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Century, Somalia, Results

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

  William J. Brennan

  Justice, Way, Constitution

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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• The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Taught Us, Evil, World

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• We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

  Anne Dudley

  Years, Ideas, Icons

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• The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

  George W. Bush

  War, Progress, Cold

  George W. Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.

  Barack Obama

  Frustration, Europe, Growth

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn't quite fit.

  Steven Knight

  Jobs, War, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Bars, Revolutionary, Century

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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