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“The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.”

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“Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.”

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Author:Tariq Ali

“The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.”

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Author:Charlton Heston

“Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.”

“My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.”

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Author:David Starkey

“Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.”

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Author:Sam Ervin

“In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.”

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Author:Jon Porter

“Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.”

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Author:Jon Porter

“We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.”

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Author:Robert Altman

“Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.”

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Author:Michael Haneke

“In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.”

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Author:Ian Mcewan

“It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.”

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Author:Manolo Blahnik

“By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".”

People Ifs Thinking World Believe Wells Made Said Stories Happens Century Dangerous This World Extremes Eggs Optimist 20th Century Make It Happen Omelets

Author:Robert Barron

“A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.”

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Author:Abraham Flexner

“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”

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Author:Lynne Truss

“The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.”

“Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

“I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.”

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Author:David Hockney

“Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings were judged more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.”

People Way Important Reality Felt Century Building Unique Satisfaction Magazines Judged 20th Century Divorced

Book:The Nature of Order: The process of creating life

Source: The Nature of Order: The process of creating life

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going.”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.”

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Author:Linda Ronstadt

“The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.”

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Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.”

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Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.”

Writing Form Song Century Folks Bunch 20th Century Register Appropriation Vernacular

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.”

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Author:Walter Kasper

“For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.”

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Author:Cynthia Daignault

“Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.”

Voice Century Contemporary Village Storyteller 20th Century Impressive

Author:Linda Simon

“Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.”

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Author:Steven Shainberg

“After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.”

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Author:Stella Blum

“The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.”

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Author:Ann Widdecombe

“I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century”

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Author:Charlton Heston

“The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.”

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Author:Willie Soon

“Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.”

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Author:Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

“I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age”

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Book:Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

“Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.”

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Author:Rob Reiner

“My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern Art has all his stuff now and [American photographer] Berenice Abbott saved his work. Not very much is known about his life, but the work is unreal and it totally spoke to me. He was the only artist for a number of years that I cared about at all.”

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Author:Jeff Vespa

“I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.”

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Author:Criss Angel

“I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.”

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Author:Hugh Masekela

“With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century”

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Book:Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 and 1952. Edited by Randolph S. Churchill

Source: Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 and 1952. Edited by Randolph S. Churchill

“But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.”

People Life Is Century Discovery 20th Century Dropping Improvisation You Like It Improvising Scientific Discovery Dropping Things

Author:Alan Arkin

“One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.”

“Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.”

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