Thirty Quotes - Page 25

• When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Sleep, Mind, Alive

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• Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

  Dave Barry

  People, Musician, Twenties

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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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• In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

  George Will

  Struggle, Government, Iraq

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• I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

  Grace Paley

  Writing, Past, Fiction

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.7, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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 suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.

  Rod Serling

  Expression, Essence, Differences

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

  Nicki Chapman

  Wise, Years, Achievement

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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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• Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Years, Echoes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.

  Meghan Daum

  Jobs, New York, College

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.

  Tod Goldberg

  War, Hero, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.

  Gerald Stern

  Jobs, Years, Philadelphia

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Four, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Writing, Twenties

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• Being in the moment with these guys was just a profound experience every day, and when we shoot a movie it's actually a very short process, especially an independent movie like this. It was only thirty five days of shooting.

  Oren Moverman

  Independent, Profound, Guy

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

  Chuck D

  Song, Kings, Teenage

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

  Charles Busch

  Appreciation, Saws, Sondheim

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

  George Carlin

  Dream, People, Wish

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• It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

  Edward Said

  Years, Israeli Settlements, Example

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go a university, that's a fake school.

  Marco Rubio

  School, People, Fake

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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