Decades Quotes - Page 24

• There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

  Kevin Spacey

  Creativity, Technology, Two

  Source: www.skyword.com

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• Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

  Misha Collins

  Father, Body, Invasion

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• You can't not be a little different from others and be successful for three decades.

  Charlie Sheen

  Successful, Different, Three

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people...

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, People, Doe

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's worth of ancient biology, and flush it into the atmosphere in a matter of decades, then it stands to reason that we're going to have enormous effects, and now we can see those effects all around us.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Atmosphere, Matter

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Egypt, Democracy

  "Interview with Egyptian Politician ElBaradei 'This Was Not a Coup'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. July 8, 2013.

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• I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Allies, British

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• My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

  Rodney Brooks

  Thinking, People, Execution

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• It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

  Sam Altman

  Years

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• I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Choices, Timeless

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Choices, Looks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• 'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Rights, Understanding

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen how they are guided by mentors to understand particular norms within their disciplines and to learn about what they can and cannot, should and should not say, and which ideas can go together and which cannot. I never went through this process.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Past

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

  David Burnett

  Giving Up, Couple, Don't Give Up

  Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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• You know every time you change a decade, it's a problem, because you approach the end little by little. But my decision is to keep going. The problem is always to know when the head doesn't work well. Someone has to tell you. I hope my children will tell me.

  Costa-Gavras

  Children, Decision, Littles

  Source: progressive.org

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• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Class

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Unfinished Business, Parent, Guilt

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• I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Two, Oil, Three

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Mainstream Culture, America

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Years, Empowerment

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• The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Style, Stories

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

  George H. W. Bush

  America, People, Brain

  "The Return of the Decade of the Brain" by Luke Dittrich, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

  David Bohm

  Travel, Communication, Past

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Cutting, Twenties

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.49, Vintage

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• If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing.

  John Barnes

  Looks, Lasts, Temperature

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