Decades Quotes - Page 23

• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  Ed Rollins

  Littles, Tough, Shock

  "Bachmann's former campaign chief - shame on you, Michele" by Edward Rollins, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

  Paul Kantner

  Odd, Century, Pleasant

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• What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

  Eve Arnold

  Curiosity, Would Be, Use

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• When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  "Judy Blume: Often Banned, But Widely Beloved". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

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• For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

  Bob Barr

  Parent, Special, Experts

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• For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

  Conrad Black

  America, World, Term

  "A Terrible & Vacuous Crisis of Leadership" by Conrad Black, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2010.

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• I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

  Julie Bowen

  Rail

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• When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Trying, United States

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• Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

  Gene Cernan

  Book, Space, Accomplishment

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• For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

  Lincoln Child

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

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• If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

  Vivian Campbell

  Dark, Rocks, Justice

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

  Christopher Dodd

  Together, Three, Republican

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• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Media, Iraq, Als

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• Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

  Steve Forbert

  Rocks, Changed, Folks

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• As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Thinking, Choices, Voting

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• Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

  Simon Armitage

  Book, Years, People

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Library, Stories, Literature

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• We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Europe, Germany, Needs

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• Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Cities, Three, Manhattan

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• I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, Careers

  "An Interview With Mark Hamill" by Ken P., www.ign.com. February 3, 2004.

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• I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

  Andrea Jung

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

  Sue Johanson

  Sex, Understanding, Body

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• I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

  Nicole Krauss

  Notebook, Dad, Writing

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