21st Century Quotes - Page 13

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Self Esteem, Kids

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• In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Book, Red Flags

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• To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century.

  Pascal Lamy

  Country, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

  Seth MacFarlane

  Atheist, Believe, Men

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• TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

  Kurt Andersen

  Intellectual, Wonderful, Century

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• Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

  Eric Ries

  Educational, Hard Work, People

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• The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

  Bruce Sterling

  Ruins, Century, Frontiers

  "Derelict power plants become Luc Besson's eurocinema wonderland" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. May 16, 2008.

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• The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

  Achim Steiner

  Humanity, Way, Century

  "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

  Manning Marable

  Cutting, Curves, Facts

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always driven, or he takes the train, or he gets the bus. I was saying 'Well, why don't we ring the changes for the 21st Century, and stick him in the car?'. [Executive Producer and son of the author, John Simenon] said, 'Well, you can if you want, but there'll be lots of people who won't like it'. So he's a non-driver ... But no, Top Gear was never a consideration for me; and neither was I asked

  Rowan Atkinson

  Son, Frustration, Car

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Bad Day, Ideas

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

  Phil Cooke

  Inspirational, Attention, Commodity

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• I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

  Mitt Romney

  America, Leader, World

  "Romney suspends White House bid". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2008.

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• The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Feminist, Feminism

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The Republicans want to take us forward to the dark ages again ... when women were property that you could easily control, even trade if you wanted to. It's appalling we are having this debate in the 21st century.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Dark, Age, Want

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• It's a mistake to get too narrow too fast. Kids today, many of them will live past 100, and you cant predict what you might work on. The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

  Megan Smith

  Mistake, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Balls, Way

  Source: medium.com

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• I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

  Alexis Ohanian

  America, People, World

  Source: www.fool.com

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• We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Financial Education, Century, Teach

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.

  Chelsea Manning

  Dream, Organization, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.

  Paul Ryan

  Military, Clueless, Commitment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I`ve said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the rules of the global economy, we will succeed in the 21st century. But we have to write those rules, we have to engage, and I think the president [Donald Trump] said Trans-Pacific Partnership is not the way to do it.

  Paul Ryan

  Writing, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.

  Martin Schulz

  Color, Rights, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

  Laura Bates

  Live Life, Thinking, Violence

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• Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by existing regulations, and we want to give them 21st century regulations on start-up governments.

  Joe Quirk

  Government, Giving, Valleys

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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