Thirty Years Quotes - Page 3

• I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

  Joe Queenan

  Christian, Jesus, Sunday

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, College

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

  Christian Lacroix

  Years, Looks, Realizing

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• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

  Floyd Abrams

  Years, Law, Lasts

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Mean, Years, Special

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Knowledge, Past, Years

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• For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

  Jason Mraz

  Years, Community, Junk

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• People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists you up to hide who you are. It's not healthy, and the great gains that homosexuals have made in my lifetime, I think that we'll look back in twenty or thirty years and say, "I can't believe we ever made them go through that."

  David Sedaris

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Phones, Years, Presidential

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.

  Michael Beckwith

  Spiritual, Reality, Years

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

  Pico Iyer

  War, Men, Sri Lanka

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet’s Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.

  Jeff Sessions

  Party, Years, Government

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• On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Years, Hopeful

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'

  Rafael Cruz

  Party, Years, Two

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.

  Jon Taffer

  Years, Careers, Bars

  Source: pocketnow.com

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• The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Iron, Oil

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.

  Reed Mullin

  Years, Play, Purple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.

  Marco Roth

  Revenge, Sibling, Climbing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

  Hal Holbrook

  Book, Years, Literature

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!

  Lee Carroll

  Spiritual, Years, Law

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Religious, Exercise, Years

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1981). “Expositions and Developments”, p.75, Univ of California Press

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• The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Years, Drs, Daleks

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• I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

  Bill Ayers

  Years, Handwriting, Exhausted

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.

  David Burnett

  Loss, Years, Wish

  Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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