Millennium Quotes

• ...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Sexy, Mean, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

  Huston Smith

  Swings, Political, World

  Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Beautiful, Stupid, Simple

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• A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Numbers, People, Experience

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• The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

  Sting

  Matter, Worried, Irrational

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• It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Thinking, Usa

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• This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Years, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

  Joan Jett

  New Year, Couple, Years

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

  Billy Higgins

  Art, Kids, Culture

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• Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

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• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  Harri Holkeri

  Giving, United Nations, Summit

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• I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

  Todd English

  Giving, House, Trying

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• Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

  Desmond Dekker

  Song, Albums, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Men, Civilization, Years

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• Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

  Booth Tarkington

  School, Boys, Years

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.102, Booklassic

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• We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Cells, President, Killing

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• If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

  Kofi Annan

  People, Doe, World

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

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• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  James Henry Breasted

  Egypt, Land, Civilization

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• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

  Harry Seidler

  Europe, Firsts, Architecture

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• Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cutting, Political, Branches

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.23, Transaction Publishers

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• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  Rand Beers

  Expansion, Next, Crime

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• The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

  Kofi Annan

  Goal, Usual, Development

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• It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

  Kofi Annan

  Government, People, Goal

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