Decades Quotes - Page 34

• 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 look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

  David Cassidy

  Eye, Hair, Looks

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

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• There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Government, Als, Linkages

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• I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

  Nancy Grace

  Violent, Wells, Courtroom

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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 But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels...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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• If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  People, Choices, Together

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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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• The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

  Janis Ian

  Years, Get Better, Worst Times

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• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  Tayari Jones

  Couple, Fighting, Thinking

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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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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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Who We Are, Next

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  Ma Jian

  Persistence, Two, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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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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• 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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• I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

  David Knopfler

  Fun, Ducks, Curves

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• In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

  David Knopfler

  Taken, Way, Honest

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• Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Men, Two, Years

  "Lilly Ledbetter DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Powerful, Doors, Input

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• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Roger Mudd

  Country, Past, Media

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• For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

  Roger Mudd

  Norm, Performances, Private Life

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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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