Forty Quotes - Page 32

• If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.

  John Densmore

  Play, Two, Trying

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world.

  Jack Canfield

  Real, Teaching, Believe

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• Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

  Robert Benton

  Book, Narrative, Different

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

  Linda Hamilton

  People, Body, Mental Illness

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

  M.I.A.

  Kids, People, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Degrees, University

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

  Uma Thurman

  Pain, Interesting, Forgiving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?

  Al Gore

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.

  Paula Scher

  Past, Thinking, Want

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• My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Brother, Home

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Writing, Trying, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.

  Reince Priebus

  Moving, Wings, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Taken, Native American, People

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

  Philip Glass

  Mean, Names, Fifty

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Years, Asking Questions, Taught

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Mean, Night

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Gone, Literature

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• The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Acting, Firsts

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Cities, African American

  Source: time.com

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• The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China or Iran. This reflects a radical shift in criminal justice policy, a stunning development that virtually no one - not even the best criminologists - predicted forty years ago.

  Michelle Alexander

  Russia, Iran, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

  Joan Collins

  Keys, Feelings, Faces

  Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

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• How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Food, Two, Six

  Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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• Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

  Ringo Starr

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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