Periods Quotes - Page 18

• The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Motivational, Hard Times, Rough Times

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

  George Vecsey

  Softball, Baseball, Player

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• After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Spring, Home, Army

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• Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, America, Together

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books

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• Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.

  Sandra Scarr

  Change, Children, Past

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• Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba—outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another—before interdigitating with related ideas.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Time, Work, Ideas

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Patience, Perseverance, Work

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Order

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Lying, Dirty, Clothes

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• It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

  Philippe Aries

  Childhood, Age, Division

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes.

  Frederic Joliot-Curie

  Positive, Rays, Aluminum

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• You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Believe, Fighting, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Different, Albums

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

  Will Self

  Book, House, Important

  "Charles Ray". Interview with Will Self, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2013.

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• When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Numbers, Twenties

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Crazy, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Opportunity, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Needs, Capacity

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

  Stanley Tucci

  Years, People, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

  William J. Clinton

  America, President, Firsts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Powerful, Class, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Interesting, Long

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.

  Angel Deradoorian

  Jobs, Long, People

  "Angel Deradoorian’s Cleaner Side". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent, or just a loved one, period - a wife, a brother, you know. You wake up and say, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster stuff anymore, I need something with a little more substance." And there is marketing for that.

  KRS-One

  Brother, Real, Men

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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