Landmarks Quotes - Page 5

• Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Technology, Nuclear, Pakistan

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• Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Norman Jewison

  Night, Rights, Perfect

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• In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's healthcare mandate is constitutional. This is a major victory for President Obama, who spent three years promoting it, and a major setback for Mitt Romney, who spent three years creating it.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Creating, Decision

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• Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.

  Twyla Tharp

  Earth, Likes, Faces

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Style, Albums

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• The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.

  Jimmy Fallon

  California, White, House

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• That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

  Jeff Bridges

  Airplane, Film

  "Jeff Bridges On ‘R.I.P.D.,’ What’s Missing In Hollywood & His Reaction To ‘Airplane!’" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

  William Beveridge

  War, Past, Opportunity

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 7), November 1942.

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• FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

  Gary Goodyear

  Unique, Community, Southern

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• I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.

  Karen Mason

  Thrill, Jazz, Carnegie

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Years, Administration, American History

  Source: www.slate.com

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• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Political, Style, Important

  ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks. And I've left these stories, these little tales that have been imprinted on the media, which will or will not be of interest to people in the future. I've done the best I can.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Media, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Faith, Lines, Shade

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.49

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• This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.

  Alison Thompson

  Opportunity, Territory, Firsts

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• In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.

  Kevin Warwick

  Believe, Home, Numbers

  "Computer Simulating 13-year-old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test". www.reading.ac.uk. June 09, 2014.

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• Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Country, Judging, Design

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God.

  Johannes Kepler

  Song, Art, Men

  "The Sleepwalkers". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!

  Edgar Winter

  Believe, Rocks, Guitar

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• Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Lying, People, Age

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• Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Memories, Generations, Records

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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• Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

  Christopher Bollen

  Art, Thinking, Video

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Children, Army, Night

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

  David Nicholls

  Kissing, Years, Sight

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.128, Hachette UK

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