Decades Quotes - Page 27

• I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it.

  Alec Monopoly

  Mom, Teacher, Home

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

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• Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Couple, Attitude, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades of collaborating with men and women in music - conductors or otherwise - I have seen no distinction.

  Michael Hersch

  Believe, Men, Two

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was an editor at Oxford at that time. We connected at a conference and over the course of lunch she told me about a wonderful new series she had just developed called Understanding Research.

  Patricia Leavy

  Book, Editors, Oxford

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• If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

  Esther Dyson

  Past, Stuff, Recommendations

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

  Cory Doctorow

  Helping, Remember, Computer

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Iraq

  "Meet the Press: Meet the Candidates 2008 series". Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2007.

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• King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Kings, Men

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• Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

  John McAfee

  Ideas, Smartphones, Bitcoin

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2014

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• The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

  Janet Yellen

  Past, Gains, Majority

  "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.

  Tony Blair

  Government, Swings, Management

  "Blair's Euro statement". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 1999.

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• There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

  Douglas Alexander

  Years, Employment, Levels

  House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2006.

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• The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Technology, Roots

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• We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Past, Europe, Partners

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• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much sense. And aiming for 2 percent inflation every year means that after a decade prices are more than 25 percent higher and the price level doubles every generation. That is not price stability, yet they call it price stability. I just do not understand central banks wanting a little inflation.

  Paul Volcker

  Fall, Mean, Years

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• ... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk. It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.

  Al Aronowitz

  Cutting, Voice, Evil

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• The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Thinking, Economy, Increase

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Fashion, Knows

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Israel, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I find it ironic and unfortunately because people are very vulnerable to populism now these days because they are desperate, we had really difficult times and we had difficult decisions to make. It is natural and it is logical to have people trying to not to vote for Syriza but to vote against the big parties that were in the Government for the last decade. So it is something that you can explain that way.

  Eva Kaili

  Party, Government, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Two, Numbers, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

  Hillary Clinton

  United States, Terrorism, States

  "The Second Democratic Debate" by Ryan Teague Beckwith, time.com. November 15, 2015.

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• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

  Jean Nouvel

  Beautiful, Light, Color

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