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Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Herman Feifel
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps
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Twentieth-century art may...
Henry Ellis
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
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Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century`s Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to ...
Robert Bateman
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Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century`s Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to ...
Robert Bateman
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation`s history. I mean in this century`s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn`t live in this century.
Dan Quayle
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation`s history. I mean in this century`s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn`t live in this century.
Dan Quayle
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation`s history. I mean in this century`s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn`t live in this century.
Dan Quayle
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John Dalton`s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
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I have a face that belongs in another century.
Charlton Heston
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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in...
Emir Kusturica
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I`ve always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century and I`m really fascinated by that whole time period. It`s been really so interesting through Buffy to get to visit some of that. Although I can say that corsets aren`t really...
Juliet Landau
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[1996] Will you help me build a bridge to the 21st century?
Bill Clinton
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Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
Oliver Stone
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Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
Oliver Stone
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[about the eight films he and Oliver Hardy made at 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s] We had no say on those films, and it sure looked it.
Stan Laurel
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I`m a fan of the fans. I love them. They`re fabulous. I love being around them. I love their madness and their caring. I love watching them take off for a weekend, don the costumes, and become characters from the 23rd century and beyond. I thank the fans ...
Nichelle Nichols
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(on researching his role as Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)) I like to learn about things. It was just a great time trying to conceive of the impossibility of that thing. I didn`t know anything about mining at the turn of the century in America. M...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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[when asked if he wished he had a different profession] Oh, all writers wish that. That`s why we become writers. We want to do something active but we can`t. Paul Johnson, in his "History of the 20th Century", says all the great crimes are committed by in...
David Mamet
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I come in at night and expect to see some transparent slut at the top of the stairs. [On her 19th century Halifax home, a former brothel]
Ellen Page
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(Upon learning that 20th Century-Fox had lied to her about being considered for the lead in a film about the life of Jean Harlow] "I have thousands of letters here, from people all over the world, saying I am the perfect Harlow . . . even naturally have h...
Jayne Mansfield
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Hated acting "because, in the final analysis, an actor is only a pawn - brilliant sometimes, rare and talented, capable of bringing pleasure and even inspiration to others, but no less a pawn for that." Hayden`s agent: "This man was born in the wrong cent...
Sterling Hayden
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There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business . . . I suppose doing a love scene with Raquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century before lunch.
Oliver Reed
