Quotes About Era

Like him or not, you really should respect the fact that Justin Amash makes his political decisions based only on his principles - which is truly refreshing in our hyper-partisan era.

Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.

A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

Lost ages are neither more nor less profound than the one we live in right now.

As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument's legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.

Since most of us are products of a culture and era where nobody likes to discuss death in case it encourages her to visit,

I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

Metallurgy as such, in Central and South America, is probably Asiatic in origin. Most recent researches tend to relate it to the South Chinese Culture of the Chou epoch (middle and late eight to fourth centuries B.C.) That would make it more or less of Danubian origin, for it was Danubian metallurgy, which in the ninth to eighth centuries B.C. arrived via the Caucasus in China.

The dirty secret of the neoliberal era is that these ideas were never defeated in a great battle of ideas, nor were they voted down in elections. They were shocked out of the way at key political junctures.

The three policy pillars of this new era are familiar to us all: privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and lower corporate taxation, paid for with cuts to public spending.

The Bush administration, meanwhile, played the part of the free-spending venture capitalist of that same heady era. Whereas in the nineties the goal was to develop the killer application, the "next new new thing," and sell it to Microsoft or Oracle, now it was to come up with a new "search and nail" terrorist-catching technology and sell it to the Department of Homeland Security or the Pentagon.

Some of the most infamous human rights violations of this era, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by antidemocratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively harnessed to prepare the ground for the introduction of radical free-market "reforms.

Like all children of that era, they had been diligently warned about strange men, but it never crossed their young minds to fear a woman.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.