Periods Quotes - Page 5

• I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Serials

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• I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Thinking, Levels

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. May 30, 2005.

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• The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again.

  Jean Chretien

  Next Day, Challenges, Too Much

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Respect, Moving, Commitment

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

  Max Ernst

  Records, Able, Possibility

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.

  Lionel Wigram

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

  William Sadler

  Fans, Different, American History

  "William Sadler on Freedom, naked tai chi, and getting silly as the Grim Reaper". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. June 20, 2015.

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• He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Our World, Air

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

  Gunther Schuller

  Years, Musical, Orchestra

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Red, Revolution, Socialism

  Speech in Potsdam on October 13, 1926. "Heinrich Himmler: A Life", Book by Peter Longerich, pp. 92-93, 2012.

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• My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it's recorded.

  Ben Harper

  Song, Band, Records

  The Streets Interview, June 20, 2006.

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• I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

  Lee Krasner

  Fighting, Years, Two

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• The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Long, Suffering, Cogs

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Religious, Character, Warrior

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

  Jef Raskin

  People, Design, Principles

  Interview in "The Guardian", October 21, 2004.

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• These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  War, Oil, Numbers

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.30, Macmillan

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• The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, Significant, Clear

  "The Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

  Karen MacNeil

  Reading, Wine, Two

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• It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Giving Up, Technology

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.47, Random House

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• Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.

  Susan McClary

  Mean, Expectations, Musical

  Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.147, Routledge

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• [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

  Trent Lott

  President, Prime, Ministers

  "A Jolly Good Show, but the Wrong Side of the Pond" by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. June 12, 2007.

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• I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Two, Years, Long

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 531), March 24, 1971.

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• I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Discovery, Two, Important

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• I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Certain, Popular Music, Feels

  HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

  Philipp Otto Runge

  Art, Past, Humanity

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