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“The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.”

Art Values Pleasure Emotion Beauty Audience Terror Decades Academic Reign Restoration Vandalism Reign Of Terror

Author:Camille Paglia

“I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.”

Thinking Decades Flavor

Author:Ron Paul

“Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.”

People Winning Democracy Deserve Iraq Decades Tyranny Good People

Author:Mike Pence

“Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'”

Knows New York Republican Pages Decades Texas Slips New York Times

Author:Rick Perry

“Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.”

States Bigs America Next Cities Bills Workers Currents Dues Decades Contracts Compelled Belts Pension

Author:John Podhoretz

“The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.”

Children Middle Media Tvs Messages Glory Research Suicide Terrorism East Decades Innocent Middle East Palestinian Institute Textbooks Diseased

Author:John Podhoretz

“The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.”

Want Two Political Culture Results Economy Conditions Roots Israel Decades Thrive Remarkable Palestinian Socialist Accord Signing Political Culture Oslo

Author:John Podhoretz

“Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.”

Thinking Use Behinds Decades Billions Philanthropy Philanthropy Giving

Author:Michael Porter

“The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.”

“It's just that... working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.”

Knows World Has Beens Book Fall Difficult Know How Saws Fans Concepts Green Falling In Love Decades Access Comic Confused Comic Book Lanterns Green Lantern

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.”

Years Has Beens War Security Threat Decades Obligation Resolution Ignored Saddam Hussein Defiance Gulf War Peace And Security

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.”

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Author:Pat Robertson

“In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.”

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Author:Christina Romer

“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”

Fun Decades

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.”

Made Bigs Mother Successful Rich Impossible Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Decades Made It Hopelessness Maids Clerks Bartender Cashiers

Author:Marco Rubio

“John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.”

Years Art Four Decades Ironic Good And Bad Conceptual Art Laconic

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.”

Giving Has Beens Past Young Artist Calling Decades These Days Young Artists

Author:Jerry Saltz

“A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.”

Kind Art Home Three House Secret Objects Theory Wall Decades Museums Units Gallery Collectors One Woman And Off Secret Life Storage Auctions Csi Saboteurs

Author:Jerry Saltz

“After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.”

Ifs Art Important Decades This Life Aesthetic New Life Seventies Appropriation Incubation

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.”

World Art Stills Past Audience Art Is Decades Over The Past Irritated Art World

Author:Jerry Saltz

“As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.”

Found Painting Stones Philosopher Decades Overlooked Pollock

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.”

Art Past Pleasure Painting Negative Decades Acceptable Twists Approved Isms Curator Checklists

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.”

America Saws Painting Wings Spending Decades Reactions Spokes Chemicals Like Something Physiological Chemical Reactions Gremlins

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.”

Years Art Shows Lasts Jesus Greater Focus Seeing Talent New York Bears Approach Fruit Decades Locals Ran Museums Last Year Emerging Gallery Noticing Whitney New Approach Art Making

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”

Littles Shows Seems Four Boxes Studios Decades Bottles Apartment Slow Down Jars Vases Nicholson Down Time Bologna

Author:Jerry Saltz

“An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.”

Greed Decades Materialism Paradox Intriguing

Author:Paul Samuelson

“I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.”

Problem Building Tools Decades I've Learned Problem Solving Deadline

Author:Adam Savage

“I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.”

Action Stars Hollywood Decades All Time

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.”

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Author:Rob Sheffield

“Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.”

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Author:Archie Shepp

“A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.”

Long Guy Goal Long Time Decades Chasing

Author:Mike Shinoda

“I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.”

People Years Stills Happened Years Ago Phones Decades Hospitals Cheer Get Over Phone Calls

Author:Richard Simmons

“There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.”

World Trying Years Wells Running Together Winning Simple Race Psychology Horse Decades Racing Evident Sociology Simple Things Horse Racing

Author:Jane Smiley

“There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.”

People Interest Twenties Decades Roaring Roaring Twenties

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

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Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.”

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Author:Charles Stanley

“Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.”

Has Beens Late Scientist Impact Decades Global Warming Too Late Warning Severity

Author:David Suzuki

“The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.”

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Author:David Suzuki

“Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.”

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Author:Alison Sweeney

“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.”

Men Made Two Self Political Skills Survival Ultimate Blue Decades Serving Sandwiches Mold Hacks Self Serving

Author:Matt Taibbi

“You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.”

Years Has Beens Names Decades Corporations

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”

People World Mean Long Helping Use Government Actors Support South Decades Violent Around The World Corporate Regimes South Africa Reverse Apartheid Boycott Non Violent

Author:Desmond Tutu

“When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

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