Decades Quotes - Page 25

• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

  Donald Evans

  Iraq, Mass Destruction, Leader

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• So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

  John Olver

  War, Assessment, Iraq

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• I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .

  James Stephens

  People, Flying, Trying

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• ... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.

  David Mitchell

  Attitude, Years, Soul

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.390, Random House Group

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• The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

  Jim Morrison

  Mass Culture, Rocks, People

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• It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

  Paul Johnson

  Luxury, Today, Universal

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• In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

  Marc Edwards

  Giving, Musical, Serious

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• How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

  Robert Atkins

  Obesity Epidemic, People, Realizing

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• Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

  Jon Landau

  Artist, Roots, White

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• The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

  Paul Goodman

  Luxury, Asceticism, Ethics

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.131, New York Review of Books

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• I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.

  Sarah Gavron

  School, Taught, Hats

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Law, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

  Isla Fisher

  Political, Typical, Comedy

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 4, 2009.

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• When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Running, Men, Impact

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Order, Use

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• Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.

  Mila Kunis

  Eight, Years, Tv Shows

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

  Charles Stross

  Half, Linux, Firsts

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• Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.

  James Ellroy

  Son, Serial Killer, Looks

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

  Lucrecia Martel

  Film Music, Information, Consumption

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Ocean, Vegas, Islands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, War, Moving

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

  Stephen Fry

  Simple, Long Walks, Average

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