Thirty Years Quotes - Page 12

• Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

  Anthony James Leggett

  Years, Twenties, Pieces

  Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

  Paul Ormerod

  Years, Growth, Size

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Mother, Spiritual

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• I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

  Adolf Loos

  Struggle, Years, Ornaments

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• There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

  Russell Baker

  Years, May, Berlin

  Russell Baker (1981). “So this is depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Doors, Years, People

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

  Shelby Steele

  Hurt, Children, Past

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• Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beach, Moon, Reality

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Memories, War, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Night, Cities, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Simple, Years

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• These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.

  Moby

  Self, Years, Drunk

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• Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.286, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Impact, Years

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• The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Years, Differences

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• The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.

  Tim Wu

  Breakup, Communication, Knowing

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

  Elon Musk

  Future, Moon, Years

  "Elon Musk is betting his fortune on a mission beyond earth's orbit" by Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Dream, Years, Long

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• How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Uncles, Fall

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• My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

  Patrick Modiano

  Years, Differences, Wife

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• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Learning

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• A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Awful

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3507, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Insecure, Korea, Years

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