Thirty Quotes - Page 4

• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Years, Careers

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: "Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wall, Nbc, Eight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Anytime that I have an impulse to pull out my phone and take a picture, especially of a landscape or something, if the first thing I do is reach for the phone, I actually force myself to sit there and at least wait thirty seconds before I actually grab my phone. I'm, like, "No, sit here for thirty seconds, and just see what you think about. What does this make you think about?"

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Thinking, Phones, Make You Think

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.

  Emily Barton

  Thinking, One Direction, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When people just become numbers, and we stop relating to each other as human beings. And we don't have the agency to make choices that can positively affect another human being. I was watching something yesterday where Justin Timberlake took a picture of himself voting, and he might get thirty days in jail because it's a new law or something.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Agency, Law, Yesterday

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Brother, Home

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of my family, I go to church, I, you know, do everything 'right'. And I'm getting shafted. For the last thirty years, my income has stagnated, my working hours are going up, my benefits are going down. My wife has to work two [jobs] to, you know, put food on the table. The children, God, there's no care for the children, the schools are rotten, and so on. What did I do wrong? I did everything you're supposed to do, but something's going wrong to me.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Jobs, Children

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Moral Strength, World

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty or thirty years that we've been operating is now transferred to RPI.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Years, Listening, Twenties

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cutting, Silent Films, Age

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.

  Andrew Lam

  Years, Twenties, Stories

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

  Amos Oz

  Book, Stealing, Academic

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

  Julia Child

  Confused, Reflection, Emotional

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.65, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

  Doris Lessing

  Wise, Years, Etc

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

  Henry Adams

  Years, Two, Bird

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wife, Forgiving, Peculiar

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

  Justin Cronin

  Two, World, Born

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.192, Ballantine Books

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• What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?

  Katherine Mansfield

  Feelings, Overcoming, Pieces

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD – The Ultimate Short Stories & Poetry Collection: 100+ Titles in One Volume (Literature Classics Series): Prelude, Bliss, At the Bay, The Garden Party, A Birthday, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses and many more”, p.7, e-artnow

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• I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, People, Yards

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.533, Penguin UK

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• I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

  Tim O'Brien

  Moving, Dark, Years

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funeral, Would Be, Why Not

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.249, Canongate Books

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• It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

  Alice Sebold

  Years, Nine, Succeed

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