21st Century Quotes - Page 7

• Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Government, Arena, Century

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• Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

  Michael Azerrad

  Thinking, Skills, People

  "TALK: Michael Azerrad". Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

  William C. Kirby

  Goal, Needs, Looks

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• The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

  Ita Buttrose

  Women, Live Life, Past

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• As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Philosophy, Moving

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• The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

  Diana Butler Bass

  Glasses, Internet, Century

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• So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

  Chip Giller

  Independent, Air, Cities

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• As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

  Rick Poynor

  Moving, Self, Breathing

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• In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.

  Stan Rapp

  Databases, Social Media, Century

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• It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

  Michelle Malkin

  Retirement, Government, Office

  "Make 70 the New 65". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Thinking, Democracy, Important

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• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

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• I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

  Julian Castro

  War, Men, Digital Revolution

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  Rafael Correa

  Sin, Socialism, Construction

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• I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

  Hope Davis

  Giving, Perspective, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, Believe, Writing

  "A Conversation With Shinzo Abe". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. April 22, 2007.

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• I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.

  Eric Holder

  Who I Am, Guy, Century

  "CBS: Eric Holder 'Ignoring Political Pressure;' Given 'Hero's Welcome' After Bush 'Cronyism'". "CBS News Sunday Morning" with Rita Braver, www.newsbusters.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

  Hu Jintao

  Office, Effort, Growth

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Orchestra, Roles, Century

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• Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish.

  Rick Castro

  Art, Sex, Forever

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• The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.

  Mark Krikorian

  Immigration, Different, Cards

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

  Eddie Obeng

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

  "Smart failure for a fast-changing world". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

  Wellington Webb

  Cities, Empires, Century

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• Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

  Anthony Principi

  Kids, Iraq, Care

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• I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

  Susan Cheever

  Believe, Century, Form

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