Groundbreaking Quotes

• Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Special, Television, Twins

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• The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Appreciation, Aggravation, Political

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• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Diversity, Perspective

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• No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

  Ice Cube

  Country, Hip Hop, Together

  "Mic, then movie: Ice Cube plays Soundset while prepping N.W.A. biopic (and 'Barbershop 3')". Interview with Chris Riemenschneider, www.startribune.com. May 22, 2015.

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• The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative.

  Terry Shintani

  Book, People, Important

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• The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

  Judd Apatow

  Trying, Way, Pressure

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Book, Track

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• Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Motivational, Ideas, Innovators

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• Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

  L.A. Reid

  Looks, World, Sound

  "New Michael Jackson music coming in May" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2014.

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• It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties there is a kind of gap.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Gay, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

  Steven Johnson

  Innovation, Batteries, Radio

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!

  Carolyn Custis James

  Christian, Real, Book

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• I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z, Eminem, Ludacris, Cee-Lo. They're groundbreaking.

  Eyedea

  Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com

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• I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Character, Thinking, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

  Rob Halford

  Years, League, Black

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• I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Invention, All Time

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• How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?

  Mary E. Pearson

  Father, Technology, Thinking

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

  Andrew Rannells

  Book, Musical, Actors

  "Andrew Rannells' Crew Love". Interview with Li Zhou, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Art, Intelligent, Media

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• We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

  Libba Bray

  School, Exercise, Class

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.

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• The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are reacting shows me that everyone sees themselves in it. That is groundbreaking. Similarly people come up some older people that it is not their story but are just crying in our arms after a screening. They know what it was like to be bullied or struggled with their own identity trying to figure out who they are. It has really caught people's imaginations.

  Andre Holland

  People, Imagination, Identity

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.

  Julie Benz

  Roles, Reason, Amanda

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

  E-40

  College, Thinking, Effort

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• The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Superhero, Able

  Source: lasentinel.net

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