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Quotes About Era

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.
~ Steven Magee
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
~ Bette Midler
In an era when the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye-catching than doing something extraordinary, I am reassured that I am merely the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee.
~ Elizabeth II
With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano ' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
~ Jane Campion
remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The Office.
~ Jason Fried
Memory is threatening to replace history in an era saturated with memory. This is bad news. Memory and history are notionally opposites: memory is individual, partial and subjective; history is collective and aspires to be comprehensive and objective. Memory and history are also complementary: history gives sense to memory; memory is a tool, an ingredient, a part of history. But memory is not history.
~ Javier Cercas
Æschylus was the poet of a new era. He bridged the tremendous gulf between the poetry of the beauty of the outside world and the poetry of the beauty of the pain of the world. He
~ Edith Hamilton
It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Skalleberg also has a revolutionary formula for building a company culture in the postmodern era: "Confidence is the start of it, joy is a part of it, love is the heart of it.
~ Alex Pattakos
Blessed is the era that can honestly claim that it is not a desert wilderness. Woe, however, to the era in which the voices calling in the wilderness have fallen silent, shouted down by the noise of the day, or prohibited, or drowned in the intoxication with progress, or restricted and quiet out of fear and cowardice.
~ Alfred Delp
I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and Bill Murray era. I loved it.
~ Molly Shannon
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
~ Rob Sheffield
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
~ Lance Loud
Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.
~ Sarah Hall
Growing up in Vegas, over time you get to see shows like Tom Jones, Wayne Newton, I mean, The Rat Pack ran Vegas way, way back, and I'm a huge fan of that whole era and vibe.
~ Ne-Yo
That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
~ Tanya Tucker
No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris.
~ Reggie Jackson
I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.
~ Colin Hanks
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
~ Jim Brown
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
~ Clint Eastwood
We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.
~ Mike Love
Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.
~ Peter Frampton
I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.
~ David Crystal