Over The Past Quotes - Page 5

• Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

  Scott Hutchison

  Couple, Past, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Past, Media

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.109, MIT Press

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• In fashion, there's a lack of strong male images. And there's a huge lack of strong African American images. I noticed over the past thirteen years, Ralph and those guys have used guys that looked similar to me. And I was happy for those guys, but eventually I said, 'Enough is enough, I'm just going to go in and take my job back.'

  Tyson Beckford

  Fashion, Strong, Jobs

  "Tyson Beckford on Modeling, Zoolander, and Racism in the Fashion Industry". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2014.

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• One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

  Erol Alkan

  Past, Opportunity, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.

  Peter Senge

  Past, Years, Effort

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Weber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.

  Jon Stewart

  Past, Opportunity, Years

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• Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

  Eddie Murphy

  Past, Years, Laughing

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• Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.

  David Brooks

  Past, Evil, Smoking

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• It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Intelligent, Past, Years

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• A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.

  Vance Joy

  Song, Past, Years

  "Vance Joy's imaginary dreams". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2014.

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• In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.

  Gillian Anderson

  Dark, Past, Thinking

  "Straightheads - Gillian Anderson interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

  Bobby Scott

  Past, Years, Prison Population

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• Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

  Alex Campbell

  Party, Past, Years

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• The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

  Alex Jones

  Past, Years, People

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.

  Cate Marvin

  Laughter, Nice, Inspiration

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Jobs, Past, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen how they are guided by mentors to understand particular norms within their disciplines and to learn about what they can and cannot, should and should not say, and which ideas can go together and which cannot. I never went through this process.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Past

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Book, Past

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it.

  Lights

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Source: coogradio.com

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• There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

  Sebastian Junger

  Couple, Ocean, Past

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• I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.

  Travis Mathews

  Couple, Teenage, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

  Don DeLillo

  Football, Thinking, Past

  "Director’s Cut: Q&A With Don DeLillo". Interview with by Rafe Bartholomew, grantland.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.

  Martin Durkin

  Past, Years, West

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• Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

  David Limbaugh

  Past, Self, Objectivity

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