Decades Quotes - Page 24

• Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

  Jay Sekulow

  Years, Campaign Finance, Regulation

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• When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Daddy, Entering, Half

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• I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Years, China

  "The Great Wall of Sound" by Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2007.

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• Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Past, Erosion, Two

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

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• Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

  Bill Pascrell

  Law, Class, Long

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• The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.

  Danny Pino

  Differences, Together, Able

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• We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Greek, Needs

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• I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

  Tom Perrotta

  Religious, Littles, Obsessed

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• I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.

  Matthew Rhys

  Patagonia

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• We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

  Richie Sambora

  Fans, Three, Generations

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• I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Asking, Lasts

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

  Chely Wright

  Christian, Home, Community

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Technology, Cells, Blood

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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