Golden Age Quotes - Page 3

• Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

  Edward Bellamy

  Lying, Age, Golden

  Edward Bellamy (2009). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, OUP Oxford

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• Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Home, Past, People

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Father, Party, Writing

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• In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.

  David Boaz

  Mean, Doors, People

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• Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
  Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
  Are little events that have come to pass
  Since the days of the old regime.
  And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
  I'd give--though it might seem bold--
  A hundred years of the Golden Age
  For a year of the Age of Gold.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Years, Giving, Age

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28

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• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

  Joel McHale

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

  Paul Feig

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.

  Arianna Huffington

  People, Community, Age

  "The Debate Over Online News: It’s the Consumer, Stupid" By Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.

  Tom Robbins

  Mind, Age, Enlightenment

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.

  Robert Hass

  Mean, Fighting, Thinking

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I feel like it's a golden age for television.

  Judd Apatow

  Age, Television, Golden

  "Judd Apatow on comedy, from 'Girls' finale to 'Ghostbusters' backlash". Q&A with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

  Whit Stillman

  Age, Television, Golden

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• How long it will take until we get to a Golden Age where everybody's perfectly in tune with God's will, I don't know; but because of Prabhupada, Krishna consciousness has certainly spread more in the last sixteen years than it has since the sixteenth century, since the time of Lord Caitanya. The mantra has spread more quickly and the movement's gotten bigger and bigger.

  George Harrison

  Years, Long, Age

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• I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.

  Marco Pierre White

  Reality, Years, Romance

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• There are terrific TV shows now. This is a golden age for TV humor, I think. There's an actual market there. Of course, I have no idea how you'd break in, but there must be a way. They have all these shows and they need jokes and somebody is writing them.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Tv Shows

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then Germany, again, at the forefront of progress. Then America in the '80s, when women were closing the pay gap. And Japan, same thing.

  Stephen Marche

  Country, Pay Gap, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

  Amos Oz

  War, Age, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Thinking, People, Age

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• I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

  Adam Schlesinger

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

  David Mitchell

  Numbers, People, Age

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• The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Civilization, Mind

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• You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.

  Dan Harmon

  Mean, Past, Two

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Phoenix, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.87, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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