Forty Quotes - Page 29

• Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  Teacher, Jobs, Hero

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• One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

  Warren Buffett

  Responsibility, Long, Effort

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• It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Feet, Air

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.47, Random House

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• My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

  Hugh Leonard

  Years, Wife, Blitz

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• Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, President, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Issues, Identity Politics

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don't feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

  Robert Plant

  Mirrors, People, Age

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.

  Meghan Daum

  Teacher, Drama, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.

  Arthur Bradford

  Summer, Men, Eight

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Fantastic, Decades

  Source: www.elle.com

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• At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, Guy, Albums

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Years, Two, Dying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

  Hilton Als

  Sadness, People, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

  Chris Hegedus

  Men, Editing, Years

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Men, Medicine, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

  Adam Ross

  Book, Kids, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.

  Sally Field

  Writing, People, Commodity

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we're in our mid-late forties and we're still skateboarding in competitions. Who'd have ever thought?

  Christian Hosoi

  Brother, Mean, Competition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Years, Proud

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• The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.

  Ted Cruz

  Law, People, Immigration

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

  George Carlin

  Dream, People, Wish

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• Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Divorce, Blow

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the time, can heal themselves and those they love, with the help of their family, friends, and community.

  Jed Diamond

  Wise, Healing, Years

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is that I was always keenly aware that life was fleeting, and that you'd better live while you have the chance. As I say in the book, since I was 19 years old I felt like I was living for two, and when I out-lived my mother, when I got into my forties, it felt like a miracle to me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.

  Kim Rossmo

  Mean, Graffiti, Pieces

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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