Decades Quotes - Page 35

• But to your point - you also raise a point, too, that it's not that, like, a bromance is necessarily a new thing. It's happened a lot in sort of big budget comedies in the past decade or so. But people have pointed out to us that we're doing a bromance, so to speak, but doing it in a different way that's even more authentic and real and sincere.

  Steve Zissis

  Real, Past, People

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, tv.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Without mentioning names, it was other people. Some day, they ought to open the report and find out. But it was other people that knocked down the World Trade Center. So, it's no reason to go into a big - now. But it was a horrible mistake that unfortunately we should never have done it. We have lost trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, wounded warriors, who I love, all over the place. And here is the other part. Iran is taking over Iraq. They have wanted it for decades and decades and decades. They're taking it over.

  Donald Trump

  Mistake, Warrior, Iran

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fiction, Matter, Representing

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• Iran is taking over Iraq. They've been trying to for many, many decades. And now they're finally taking over Iraq. As we sit here, they're taking over Iraq. We get nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, Iran, Trying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.

  Chuck Todd

  Reality, Television, Changed

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.

  Adam Reed

  Phones, Cells, Clothes

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Careers, People, Warning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

  Robert Sietsema

  Different, Obscure, My Favorite

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Taken

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that`s been in "The New York Times". Decades ago with "The New York Times".

  Chris Hayes

  New York, People, African American

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.

  Simon Romero

  Country, Brazil, Today

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally.

  Erica Schroeder

  Sound, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Years, Editors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

  Nicholas Royle

  Jobs, Government, Together

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Shining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Eye, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol in the Islamic world today. You have to remember they were soundly thrashed over the last century by the West, and in the last 50years, three times by the Indians, three times by the Israelis. And so a victory against the Soviets is huge.

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Victory, Three

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.

  Dan Millman

  Book, Warrior, Years

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• The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

  Michael Kimmel

  Past, Careers, Balance

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.

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• I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

  Mark Millar

  Stuff, Really Happy, Seems

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Three, Cocoons

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

  John L. Casti

  Years, Globalization, Ends

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

  Ian Bremmer

  War, Two Worlds, Rivals

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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