"There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth."
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"I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era."
"One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s."
"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."
"We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids."
"Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance."
"Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding."
"The era of ‘yes’ has begun."
"As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University."
"The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit."
"Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before."
"I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era."
"I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era."
"...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux."
"Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies."
"It's a very confusing era that we're in."
"In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull."
"It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close."
"A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers."
"With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century"