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I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more. — Richard Darman

Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep. — Bill Bryson

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. — Mary Quant

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire

All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century. — Tony Judt

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. — Carlos Fuentes

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful. — Raymond Loewy

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance — Lewis Thomas

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. — Martin Scorsese

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle . — Eric Hobsbawm

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp

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

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. — Diana Vreeland

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office. — William J. Clinton

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century. — Richard Flanagan

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America. — Phil Gramm

...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness. — Alan Pauls

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened. — Joan Collins

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. — Tucker Max

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968. — Catfish Hunter

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. — Nils-Axel Morner

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — David Hockney

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. — Carl Sagan

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. — Dale Ahlquist

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world. — Robert James Thomson

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century. — Carl Honore

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that. — Daryl Hall

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. — Avery Brundage

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. — P. J. O'Rourke

At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust. — Joel T. McGrath

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age — Charles Bukowski

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. — Daniel Kleppner

Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust. — A.E. Samaan

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables. — Lester R. Brown

Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience. — Paul Gibbons

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. — Lester B. Pearson

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities. — Wellington Webb

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century. — Ruth Bernhard

Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century. — Nick Harkaway

After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. — P. J. O'Rourke

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. — Jurgen Habermas

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. — John Updike

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. — William J. Brennan Jr.

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. — Robert Morgan

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. — Terence McKenna

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream? — Slavoj Zizek

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. — Tina Brown

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. — Marshall McLuhan

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

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that. — Roselee Goldberg

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. — Beeban Kidron

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Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century. — Ray Manzarek

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world. — Joe Hill

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. — Bertrand Piccard

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century. — Saul David

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna

Nikola Tesla Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century — Sean Patrick

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century. — Vernon L. Smith

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. — Jennifer Senior

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. — Francis Parker Yockey

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. — Jerry Coleman

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century. — Henry R. Luce

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century — Charlton Heston

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar. — Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. — Constance Baker Motley

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. — Lance Morrow

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. — James Wolcott

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me. — Robert Anton Wilson

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. — Tariq Ali

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. — Paul Goldberger

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. — Mike Lowell

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. — Sara Sheridan

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. — Britt Daniel

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. — Joschka Fischer

History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century by William W. Hunter — William W. Hunter

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. — FM-2030