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It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Battlefield Bit Century Early Earth Judgments Make May Movie Out Turn Well Worst

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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

~Emir Kusturica

Topics: Any Art Awful Central Century Collapsed Great Great Place History Hollywood Human Idealism Like Machinery Most Now Place Poison Preserved Pure The History Of Then World You 20Th Century

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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

~Eric Liu

Topics: Become Bring Celebrate Century Create Diversity Everyone How More Need Our Potential Should Something Tent Than Together True Way

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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 Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Around Automobile Century Companies Couple Done Early Engine Entered Entrepreneurs Folded Ford Got Had Henry Industry Internal Like Percent Same Same Time Sixty Something Study Technology Them Time Vision Were Who Within Years 20Th Century

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Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Century Educational Entrepreneurship Essential Essential Part Failure Get Guaranteed Hard How Much Our Part People Preparing Pretty System Work Work Hard Works You 21St Century

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For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: Century Corporate Democratic Democratic Process Elections Integrity Level Local More Process Protect Sought Spending State States Than

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I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Century Day Know Listen Listening Music Reading Spend Without Writing I Can 19Th Century

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Century Dead God Man Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Problem Twentieth Twentieth Century

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I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Accelerate Century Friends Gave Generation Late Love Nostalgia Nostalgic Noticed Our Our Generation Turn Us Were I Love 1990S 1980S

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In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

~Eskinder Nega

Topics: Anomaly Antagonism Attraction Been Burden Carried Century Decades Dominated Historical History Leadership Least Long March Nation Norm One Nation Only Past Poles Politics Rarely States Two United United States World 21St Century

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