Eras Quotes - Page 24

• 9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to speak to each other manually; today one or both ends of the conversation would be carried on by a machine.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Distance, Party

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• We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Money, Moving

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• The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moon, Historical, Railroads

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

  George Hamilton

  Kind, Relics

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

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• While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

  George Hamilton

  Attitude, Teeth, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

  Nicholson Baker

  Training, Signatures, Sound

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Grew Up, Standards

  "Tom Ford: The Sequel" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 9, 2010.

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• You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

  Johnny Bench

  Mean, Player, Looks

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• Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Artist, Mirrors, Hands

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• At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

  Ron Fournier

  Wonder, Polarization, Term

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• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  Hale Irwin

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history". Interview with Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

  Alexander McQueen

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  "Remembering Alexander McQueen". Interview with Karl Plewka, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1997.

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• When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

  Max Brooks

  Dark, Thinking, Knights

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

  Aloe Blacc

  Desire, Needs, Consumerism

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.

  Tracie Bennett

  Running, Issues, Weight

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• It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  Eliza Coupe

  Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend

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• Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

  Billy Campbell

  Fun, Reading, Games

  "Q&A – Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

  Laz Alonso

  Wise, Pieces, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

  Dennis Chavez

  Liberty, May, Silent

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• Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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• We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Artist, Ideas, Support

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• I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Art, Native American, Years

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• People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

  Nina Garcia

  Technology, People, Age

  "Nina Garcia Is Celebrating Her Birthday With ‘An Extra Helping Of Dessert’" By Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

  Mose Allison

  Swings, Numbers, People

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• In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Science, Radio, New Era

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