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I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#color #concert #every #every time #had

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#education #i #i think #increases #industry

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#age #century #end #having #leaders

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. ↗

— James Buchan

#adjusted #age #average #barrel #century

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#back #bat #camp #confirmed #days

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. ↗

— John Updike

#assumed #century #generally #had #his

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture. ↗

— John Carpenter

#business #certainly #changed #days #films

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#anybody #centuries #century #know #like

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom. ↗

— Helen Clark

#become #century #i #i think #inevitable

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#beginning #century #intelligent #january #mark