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Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to… — Russell Means
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of… — Alan Moore
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in… — Viggo Mortensen
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them… — Janet Napolitano
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think… — Ron Paul
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented… — Steven Pinker
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice… — Terry Pratchett
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry… — Eric Ries
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. — Martin Scorsese
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. — John Updike
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with… — Edward Witten
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 still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. — Loretta Young
I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. — Tucker Max
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability… — Douglas Rushkoff
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. — Jon Krakauer
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance — Lewis Thomas
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.… — Nicholas D. Kristof
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make… — Theodore Dalrymple
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a… — Jon Krakauer
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and… — Walter Mosley

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