Lifetime Quotes - Page 33

• I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

  Susana Martinez

  Children, School, Kids

  RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

  John Mayer

  Someday, Selling, Blues Music

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• The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Twilight, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

  Arthur Miller

  New York, Lines, May

  1989 In The Times,11 Jan.

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• In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cat, Nine, Knows

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• I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

  Michael Moore

  Dvds, Video, Gone

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• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

  Alanis Morissette

  Eye, Creative, Way

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• Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

  Michael Morpurgo

  Writing, Voice, Giving

  "Michael Morpurgo's top tips for writing" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, People, Important

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• A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Twelve, Novel

  "'When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place'". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, www.spiegel.de. February 20, 2008.

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• If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

  Elon Musk

  Land, Humanity, Would Be

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

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• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Success, Accomplishment, Saved

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Jobs, Values

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• Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Imbalance, Rooms, Gains

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• I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.

  Peter O'Toole

  Beautiful, Actors, Tables

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• Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Book

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• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  Barack Obama

  College, Community, Employment

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• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Eight, Coal

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• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.65, PublicAffairs

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• A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Sports, Quilts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

  PSY

  Queens, Hero, Role Models

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

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• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  Camille Paglia

  Baby, Book, Political

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• The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Contentious, American Politics

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• I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

  Michael Palin

  Awards, Years, Achievement

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