Forty Quotes - Page 18

• I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

  Stevie Nicks

  Years, Thirty, Feels

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• To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

  Keith Richards

  Teenage, Kids, Important

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• Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

  Andre Gide

  Children, Parent, Would Be

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.293, Routledge

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• Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.

  Brian Molko

  Names, People, Important

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• Life begins at age forty.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Age

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• In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

  Chuck Jones

  Moving, Forty Eight, Drawing

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• I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

  James A. Michener

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• The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

  Kevin Nealon

  Believe, Abortion, Argument

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• After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Years, Names

  Annie Besant (1914). “The Relativity of Hindu Ethics”

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• There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Boys, Healthy

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• Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Men, Years, Waiting

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• Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Misanthrope, Mankind

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• The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.

  Jennifer Morse

  Long, Twenties, Revolution

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• It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Years, Decision

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• For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

  Marcel Tabuteau

  Years, Play, Bored

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• I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: 'Where is the one that is lowest-priced in relation to what I believe it's worth?' Forty years of experience have taught me you can make money without ever knowing which way the market is going.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Years, Knowing

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• To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.

  Jonathan M. Goldstein

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a combination, I think they want to know - it's for every show, which is I think networks want to know that you have a vision for where the show could go to make sure that it really is a show, that it's not just a one-off forty minute pilot, that it's an actual series.

  Bryan Burk

  Thinking, Vision, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Men, Afternoon, Evening

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• Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Men, Past

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

  Pat Robertson

  Wings, United States, Racist

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• Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court

  Stephen Fry

  Girl, Men, Issues

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Joy, Age, Misery

  Sarah Bernhardt (2013). “My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt”, p.372, Library of Alexandria

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• No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

  Bill Rodgers

  Week, Hours, Beats

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