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“[Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century, Mockingbird won three Oscars, including one for star Gregory Peck , who died in 2003. And it was Peters who read the eulogy at Peck's funeral.] In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love, ... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure.”
Brock Peters
“The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.”
Levi Strauss
“The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls.”
Diana Vreeland
“It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.”
Larry Summers
“I've been waiting, like, a quarter of century to be a quarter of a century, can you believe it?”
Gisele Bundchen
“Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for centuries!-Lestat”
Interview with the Vampire
“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”
James A. Michener
“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends”
Caryl Rivers
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