Generations Quotes - Page 65

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.

My generation is under-entertained.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.