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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
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
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
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
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
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
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
— Erich Fromm
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
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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— Anonymous
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
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
— Terence McKenna
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
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century
— Charlton Heston
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
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
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
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
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
— George Meany
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
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— William W. Hunter
