Thirty Quotes - Page 4

• Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  People, Significance, Five

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Believe, Writing, Sea

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• If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

  Edward Albee

  Past, Boys, Talking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [Laâbi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Strong, Father

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• After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Creative, Development

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.

  Vera Brosgol

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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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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• 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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• When people just become numbers, and we stop relating to each other as human beings. And we don't have the agency to make choices that can positively affect another human being. I was watching something yesterday where Justin Timberlake took a picture of himself voting, and he might get thirty days in jail because it's a new law or something.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Agency, Law, Yesterday

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of my family, I go to church, I, you know, do everything 'right'. And I'm getting shafted. For the last thirty years, my income has stagnated, my working hours are going up, my benefits are going down. My wife has to work two [jobs] to, you know, put food on the table. The children, God, there's no care for the children, the schools are rotten, and so on. What did I do wrong? I did everything you're supposed to do, but something's going wrong to me.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Jobs, Children

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.

  Emily Barton

  Thinking, One Direction, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cutting, Silent Films, Age

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

  Charles C. Mann

  Powerful, Russia, Aztec

  Charles C. Mann (2006). “1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, p.74, Vintage

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• Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Years, Lifetime

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• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Sex, Real, Years

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

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• A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

  Barry Hughart

  Wise, Men, Years

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.73, Spectra

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• I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sadness

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• Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Wheels, Holes

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• In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

  Ben Hecht

  Names, Hollywood, Starlets

  "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

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• Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

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