Generations Quotes - Page 27

• T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, House, Pounds

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).

  Charles Stross

  Believe, Light, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

  Takashi Miike

  Childhood, Our Children, My Generation

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If things do get better in Iraq, I'm saying as someone who thinks the war was a mistake. I'm saying that is cause for us all to have a huge party. It's a big deal if things get better. Because if they don't get better, our country is going to be hurt for generations.

  Tucker Carlson

  Country, Hurt, War

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Moving, Helping Others, People

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

  James Frey

  Ambition, Two, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. February 5, 2015.

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• In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Leader, Trying, Adults

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund -- the nation's largest lobbying group for young people -- talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Degrees, Enlisting

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

  Rita Dove

  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.

  Laura Bush

  Running, Children, Sleep

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Intellectual, Tasks

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• This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Fighting, Ideas

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• I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Hero, Thinking, Two

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• As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Two, Criminals

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose

  Muhammad Ali

  Guarantees That, People, Purpose

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• I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Feminism, Video, Audio

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

  Richard Linklater

  Children, Definitions, Modern

  "How Richard Linklater Turned a 'Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea' Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

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• If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

  Winston Churchill

  Responsibility, Looks, Failing

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• A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

  Bertrand Russell

  Fearless, Educated

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.205, Routledge

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• Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Communication, Ignorance, Past

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