Decades Quotes - Page 37

• When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Comedy, Educated

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

  Joe Biden

  Judging, Nominations, Lasts

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

  Joe Biden

  Past, Fifth Amendment, Three

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Years, Hopeful

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Teacher, New York

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Body, Information

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• After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Two, Empowering, Community

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Country, Home, Return

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

  Keith Murray

  Letting Go, Reign, States

  "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Bullying, Self Esteem, Years

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• How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Justice, Safety

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

  Theo Rossi

  Years, Age, Matter

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For nearly a decade now, I've been teaching others how to thrive by filling their bodies with energizing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. Not a day goes by when someone doesn't write me to say, "Thanks, I feel better now, too." Those letters from my readers are my digital cardinals.

  Kris Carr

  Teaching, Writing, Feel Better

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• Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

  Dalai Lama

  Unions, Middle East, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."

  Rose McGowan

  Way, Towns, Hollywood

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is a man up in Philadelphia, I've known him for 50 years now, his name is Sid Mark. He does a radio program featuring Frank Sinatra music exclusively - one show for decades, "Friday with Frank," "Saturday with Sinatra," "Sunday with Sinatra," for decades. This is something that is really quite important.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Friday, Sunday, Men

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this in mind, that's the kind of thing Frank Sinatra brings out in his audience, his followers. It's personally satisfying to me because his music by and large was the greatest quality of lyrics, melody, orchestration and, of course, his magnificent approach to telling a story.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Artist, Mind, Quality

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• It isn't too late to shift from the swift, sharp decline of ocean systems in recent decades to an era of steady recovery. There is time, and there is a growing awareness, which is the best way to counter indifference. People who know might care.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Recovery, People

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• The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Recovery, Thinking, Self

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

  Barack Obama

  America, Three, Four

  "Obama reacts to Trump's GOP convention speech: CNN vets the claims". edition.cnn.com. July 25, 2016.

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• I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Style, Musician, Groups

  "Born To Run". Book by Bruce Springsteen, 2009.

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• The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Stronger, Overcoming, Unions

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity. In other words that uprisings happen spontaneously, people are frustrated, angry, then they spontaneously rise up. And what they don't require is preparation, or what we used to call leadership.

  Vijay Prashad

  Thinking, Uprising, Two

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• [He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.

  Scott McClanahan

  Couple, Book, Anecdotes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Writing, Balance, Metaphor

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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