October Quotes - Page 11

• I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.

  Carey Mulligan

  Wall, Years, November

  Source: collider.com

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• Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

  David Rock

  Technology, Average, Office

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• In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.

  William Styron

  Struggle, Paris, Mind

  "Darkness Visible". Book by William Styron, 1990.

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• [As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.

  Gloria Estefan

  New York, Children, Treasure

  Reuters News Agency, November 17, 2006.

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• My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

  David Rockefeller

  Congratulations, October Revolution, Imf

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• October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Men, Voice, Battle

  Siegfried Sassoon, “Autumn”

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• When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

  Joan Robinson

  Ideas, Economics, Cambridge

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

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• More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.

  M.C. Beaton

  Eye, Airports, Years

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• Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Bad Day, Years

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Borders, Saws, Force

  "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.

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• On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

  Abby Sunderland

  Eye, Sixteenth Birthday, Happenings

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we finally have this recall election in October, there could be as many as 200 people on the ballot. And you know what's really scary? Most of them don't know the first thing about driving a state into bankruptcy. They're not experts like Governor Gray Davis.

  Jay Leno

  People, Scary, Experts

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• I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.

  David Trimble

  Party, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Investing, May, Casinos

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Long Ago, Requirements

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Russia, Agency, Talking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

  Sharon Jones

  Summer, Past, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Buttons, Netflix

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Thinking, Expression, Occupation

  Source: www.indians.org

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• October 7th [2016], indeed, WikiLeaks released its whole new dump. A whole new bunch of e-mails and documents, this time from [Hillary] Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, e-mails that U.S. intelligence say were hacked by Russia. Apparently, again, they were waiting for the best possible timing on the release.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Waiting, Wikileaks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.In my new book, I open with a quote from Donald Rumsfeld. In October 2001, he said of Afghanistan: "It's not a quagmire." Ten years later there are 150,000 Western troops there.

  Michael Hastings

  Book, Quagmire, Impossible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We know that a government shutdown is gonna blamed on the Republicans no matter who, what, when, where, why. You want to give the media ammo going into 2018, how the Republicans hate government, the Republicans hate you, the Republicans want you dead, the Republicans want your kids dead, the Republicans want you breathing dirty air, poisoned water, and all this stuff, a shutdown in September, it would actually be in October, because that's - I don't mean to pick hairs here, but a shutdown would be in October if it happens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Dirty, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

  Leon Trotsky

  Government, Lessons, Study

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I think there are only two things you should really expect Congress to do.One is to pass a short-term funding bill, because it's not in their political interest to shut down the government when the fiscal year comes into effect, the new fiscal year, on October 1. The second thing, I think, is Zika funding. This has been put off and off for months and months.

  Susan Page

  Thinking, Political, Interest

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.

  Alison Stewart

  Mean, Presidential, Election

  Source: www.pbs.org

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