Phases Quotes - Page 2

• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

  Sharron Angle

  Favors, Needs, Social

  "Approval Ratings Down, Reid In Re-Election Fight". Interview, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

  Bill Berry

  Friendship, Moving, Years

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• I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

  Paul Putner

  Jobs, School, Careers

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• Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

  Daniel Handler

  Sex, People, Risk

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• There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

  Mary Norris

  Editors, Obsessed, Hyphens

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

  Philip Johnson

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Responsibility, Decision, Important

  "Dyke's 'posh lady' quits BBC" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2004.

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• In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.

  Jess Weixler

  Fall, Surfing, Four

  "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Ideas, Two

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• We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Trying, Existence, Feels

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• We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

  Jeh Johnson

  Moments, Lone Wolf, Strikes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

  Randeep Hooda

  Hero, Insecure, Roles

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• Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Different, Way

  "On “Capote,” “Brokeback Mountain” and Why “Match Point” is the Best Picture of the Year" by Gore Vidal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2006.

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• The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Attitude, Winning, Trying

  "Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Watches, Might

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. November 19, 2013.

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• The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

  Rian Johnson

  Giving Up, Writing, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  Ed Rendell

  Campaigns, Paper, Speech

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• It's a bittersweet feeling because this [filming in Chronicles of Narnia] has been a part of my life for six years - from the age of 15 to 21. For anybody that's a big growing up phase, especially in the unique experience of Narnia. But I feel honoured to have been a part of it but the tools I learned from Narnia I'm now taking forward to my next project.

  Skandar Keynes

  Growing Up, Unique, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

  Penelope Leach

  Family, Children, Kids

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• The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Essence, Understanding

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• The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

  Mary Robinson

  Moving, Thinking, Rights

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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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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Europe And America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Europe, History, Interesting

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.608, Cambridge University Press

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