Forty Quotes - Page 33

• Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

  Brooke Burke

  Who I Am, Understanding, Tick

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• When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

  John Cleese

  Years, Comedy, Jokes

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• Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

  Red Cloud

  Years, World, Fifty

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• If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

  Joan Collins

  Keys, Feelings, Faces

  Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

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• I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

  Steve Coogan

  Men, Years, Band

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• The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

  Michael Crichton

  Years, Single Life, Literature

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

  Steve Earle

  Tired, Eight, Views

  "Steve Earle, Our Woody Guthrie, Takes Our Pulse On Low Highway" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

  Sylvia Earle

  Golf, Agriculture, United States

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• A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Heart, Soul

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• I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

  Zac Efron

  Want, Married, Pregnant

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Oath Of Office, Years, America

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

  Paul Feig

  Kids, Adults, Lines

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• I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.

  Nathan Fillion

  War, Book, Reading

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• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Funny Friend, Literature

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Food, Two, Six

  Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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• I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Years, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

  Vanilla Ice

  Girl, Years, Jam

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

  Denis Kearney

  Race, Land, People

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• There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

  Audre Lorde

  New York, Circles, Feminist

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• I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Cities, House

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

  John Malkovich

  New York, Suits, Hats

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• I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Fun, Bad Day, Thinking

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• Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

  Joyce Meyer

  Years, Land, Complaining

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• Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

  Maria Monk

  Views, Numbers, Dresses

  Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.44

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• Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

  Errol Morris

  Country, Thinking, Years

  The 76th Annual Academy Awards, www.imdb.com. February 29, 2004.

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