Ten Quotes - Page 29

• When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.

  Kathy Calvin

  Girl, Country, Wall

  "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Years, Climate, Lasts

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

  Morris Chestnut

  Rapper, Years, Pimp

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• It's the weirdest thing. Evan [Goldberg] was just telling me how weird it is that we won't be working on Sausage Party, to which I said, "Hopefully, we'll be working on Sausage Party 2." It was almost ten years ago when we came up with the idea.

  Seth Rogen

  Party, Years, Ideas

  Source: munchies.vice.com

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• 'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

  David Benioff

  Years, Lasts, Fiction

  Source: variety.com

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• For Mexicans, for Americans, we are all united by 3,000 kilometers of border, with neighboring states - ten neighbors states, and with population over 15 million inhabitants. And their well-being depends on the well-being of their neighbors.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Population, Borders, Neighbor

  Source: time.com

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• Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Art, Organization, Risk

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Do something physical every day, even if it's just five or ten minutes of fast walking a couple times a day. That tends to replace fear and anger with determination and courage. It can change your identity, your momentum.

  Tony Robbins

  Determination, Couple, Identity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

  Geena Davis

  Years, Two, Waiting

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Years, Manipulation, Manners

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Kids, Careers

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

  Kathy Bates

  Character, Past, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

  Van Morrison

  Country, Talking, Years

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the script if it was funny enough.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  Nuts, Play, Scripts

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• 'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

  Roger Williams

  Men, Hands, Mercy

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• [The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it`s going to go up a little bit higher.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Feet, Littles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

  Dogen

  Self, Religion, Earth

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• Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

  Seungsahn

  Dream, Years, Mind

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• Maybe Italians are a bit less restrained: they can be less rigid and sometimes they stray a little in their ways of dressing for work, which is something that is always linked to the formal suit. What we like of both Italians and the British is that they love to dress well. In the past ten years we have witnessed a revolution in the menswear market.

  Stefano Gabbana

  Past, Years, Dresses

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• It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Spy, Pay

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• On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.

  George Gerbner

  Risk, Groups, Television

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• Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Waiting, Flying, Hours

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• A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

  Robert Ripley

  Men, Years, Obscurity

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• I know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.

  Nan Goldin

  Years, Old Friends, Moss

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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