Futuristic Quotes

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

  Syd Mead

  Reality, Lines, Fantasy

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• That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

  Alan Vega

  Rap, Hip Hop, Records

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• I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.

  Sabrina Lloyd

  Strong Women, Character, Thinking

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• Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Thinking, Skylines, Done

  "The Great Wall of Sound" by Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2007.

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• Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

  Suzanne Collins

  Giving, Stories, World

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• She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heart, Men, Vegas

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.89, Penguin

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• My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Freedom, Future, Humanity

  "Rocket Scientist". Interview with Josh Seftel, www.pbs.org. May 1, 2009.

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• Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

  George Orwell

  Art, World, Backwards

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

  Damon Albarn

  World, Western, Western World

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Trying, Intention, Music Is

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• Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Fashion, Unique, Space

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• They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You're not just a smoker, you're an example to other people. You're an exhibit at a futuristic zoo.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Zoos, Humor

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• I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.

  Kool Keith

  Running, Sound, Groups

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• My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

  Lil' Mama

  Cutting, Who I Am, The End Of The Day

  "Lil Mama On Her Style Evolution; Nicki Minaj & Being A Curse-Free Rapper". Interview with Tray Hova, www.vibe.com. June 15, 2011.

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• We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Teaching, Technology

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

  Ralph Bakshi

  Funny, Science, Gun

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• If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Epcot

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• The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

  Matt Taibbi

  Giving, Greed, Culture

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• Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Years, President

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

  David Twohy

  Trying, Fiction, Familiar

  Source: collider.com

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• Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

  Gaspar Noe

  Care, Colorful, Bubbles

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind.
  
  Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios.
  Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense.
  
  Is like to go to the movies for free, every day.
  
  The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for:
  Sit down, Shut up and Meditate
  (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)

  Marcelo Goianira

  Movie, Drama, Technology

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• Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Effort, Listening, Machines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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