Decades Quotes - Page 10

• In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

  Anson Mount

  Men, Media, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Real, Writing, Giving

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Exceptional, Position, Knows

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• I have been recording for five decades now.

  Chuck Mangione

  Five, Has Beens

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• There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

  Mark Zandi

  Real, Mistake, Past

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• In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Thinking, Introducing New, Play

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• Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Source, Figures

  "Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists" by John Shelby Spong, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wall, Government, United States

  "'A Massive Surveillance State': Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 07, 2013.

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• It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Space, Three

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• Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

  Richard Branson

  Change, Trying, Stories

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• We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, People, Three

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• The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Cost, Gulags, Crime

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• Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.

  Michael Cunningham

  Art, War, Fall

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• Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Book, Icons, Community

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• If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

  Peter Thiel

  Focus, Missing, Growth

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.39, Crown Business

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• In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

  Peter Bergen

  Cities, Lasts, Firsts

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

  Ed Balls

  Government, Saving, London

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• Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful .. approach is in direct contrast to brutal and destabilizing methods used by the US and EU. The world is waking up to reality that there actually is, suddenly, some strong and determined resistance to Western imperialism. After decades of darkness, hope is emerging.

  Andre Vltchek

  Strong, Reality, Russia

  "Ukraine: Lies and Realities" by Andre Vltchek, www.counterpunch.org. April 11, 2014.

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• I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

  Peter Asher

  Different, Roles, Music Business

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• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Drama, Lasts, Century

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

  Stephen Daldry

  Defining, Productions, Has Beens

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• During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Past, Two

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• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  Harold Hamm

  Believe, Yield, Years

  "Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start". www.forbes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Sea, Levels, Lasts

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Building, Accusation

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June, 1935.

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