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“The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.”

Thinking Kids Good Things Forty

Author:Rose Byrne

“I was a teenager when General Zia took power in the Pakistan; I was in my twenties when I went there during the late 1980s and I saw then not only the novel punishments that he was introducing - because they were novel, and this is again something that's very important to understand, it's only in the last thirty, forty years, since 1979 in fact, that these penalties have been revived anywhere in the world apart from Saudi Arabia.”

World Important Novel Teenager Forty Introducing

Author:Sadakat Kadri

“The reason I love blogs so much right now is that I am seeing more critical voices appear, and that's kind of thrilling. I think a lot of critics in their forties or even their thirties have had their voice scared or trained out of them by the academy. I have nothing against the academy. I think it's brilliant and fantastic, but I also think that it's become almost monolithic. The same way a lot of art looks the same, a lot of writing can sound the same and quotes the same theorists.”

Thinking Writing Kind Art Reason Critics Scared Brilliant Fantastic Forty

Author:Jerry Saltz

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

Reason Success Millions Failure Dare Excuse Forty Failure In Life Making Excuses

Book:The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

“People only live for forty or fifty years so if you were married for twenty or twenty-five of those then that was it. Now people live for eighty years and if your married for fifty or sixty of those you start to get on each other's nerves.”

People Married Forty Sixty

Author:Zak Orth

“If you look at figures, we have a good supply of doctors in Switzerland. They always say that in the future we shall have a lack of home doctors, family doctors. I'm not sure of that, but we have a problem of formation. Every year there [are] about 1,000 students beginning medical studies, and at the end of the formation there are only 600 young people getting the diploma. It means that about 40 percent of the students fail during the studies, although there is a selection at the beginning. Forty percent is too much as failure, so probably there is a problem in the formation, education.”

People Mean Problem Home Study Failing Students Medical Not Sure Forty

Author:Pascal Couchepin

“It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years.”

Trying Past Extras Forty Globalization Amnesia

Author:Keller Easterling

“Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.”

Writing Feelings Problem Interesting Computer Very Good Forty

Author:Nick Laird

“Recognise that the free world is at war with Putin, and America is the leader of the free world and should build the coalition against him. It is similar to what Harry Truman did in the Forties. They have to oppose the threat that comes from Putin and other dictators.”

World War Leader Threat Forty Dictator Truman

Author:Garry Kasparov

“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”

Deals Economy Horse Forty Cents Horse Riding Good Horse Physical Courage Flasks

Author:Stephen Leacock

“There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.”

Ifs Knows Literature New York Feminist Circles Forty God Knows

Author:Audre Lorde

“I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.”

Years House Sides Born Cities Five Changed Areas South Five Years Neighborhood Forty Chicago Rats October

Book:Maybe You Never Cry Again

Source: Maybe You Never Cry Again

“In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.”

New York Suits Hats Forty Overcoat

Author:John Malkovich

“Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.”

Left Four Taste Wine Forty Chocolate Cheese Bud Cheesy Vodka Taste Buds Love Chocolates Wine And Cheese

Book:It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World

Source: It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World

“I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.”

Thinking Kind I Can Fun Interesting Watches Forever Comedy Minutes Materials Forty Bad Day Robins Waitress Having A Bad Day

Author:Bruce McCulloch

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.”

Ifs Men World Looks Age Found Waiting Secret Five Aging Birthday Forty Umpires Other Worlds Inspirational Birthday

Author:Golda Meir

“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”

Men Long Matter Wisdom Women Wise Average Eight Forty Forty Eight

Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.”

Years Land Complaining Forty Wilderness Promised Land Murmuring

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.”

Used Views Numbers Rich Dresses Occasions Forty Belonging Veils Ceremony Spectators Altars Chapel

Book:Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal

Source: Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal

“Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!”

People Ifs Thinking Years Ideas Country Done Millions Issues Years Ago Died Holes Damn Forty Vietnam Rabbits Brilliant Ideas Damn Good Rabbit Holes

Author:Errol Morris

“As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.”

Students Drama Suits Forty

Author:Gary Oldman

“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

Should Age Three Study Five Teacher Periods Should Have Twenties Profession Forty Investigation Sixty Retired Twenty Five Allowance

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.”

Years States Bigs Government Used Social United United States Security Taxes Congress Spending Forty Fund Pregnancy Social Security Big Government Government Spending Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Mike Pence

“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

“I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.”

Sides Five Significant Mathematical Forty Best Work

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.”

Want Pops Singers Forty Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.”

Years Age Beauty Five Aging Forty Handsome 50th Birthday

Author:J. B. Priestley

“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.”

Ifs Years Children Two Young Mother Literature Fit Lifetime Forty Young Children Being Sad Statistician

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.”

“Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.”

Pieces Cutting Food Cooking Forty Culinary Sandwiches Ham

Author:Jack Benny

“And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.”

Thinking Wells Real Courses Black Player Influence Band Late Forty Drummer

Author:Buddy Rich

“There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.”

Years Individual Style Years Ago Thirty Forty Individual Style

Author:Buddy Rich

“Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.”

Business Equal Partners Forty Sixty

Author:Joan Rivers

“Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.”

Paper Advertising Forty Ads Editorials Adverts

Author:Will Rogers

“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”

Years Enough Lasts Three Money Business Saved Mediums Forty Castles Tuscany

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.”

Choices Loses Plans Percent Advantage Seven Forty Senior Obamacare Medicare Pennsylvania

Author:Paul Ryan

“The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.”

World Art Periods Forty Seventies Scarce Reborn Art World

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”

Art Strong Incredibles Height Reaching Forty Gates Coming Out Abstraction

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”

Years Facts Hands Able Clear Models Physics Forty Interpretation Quantum Metaphysics Metaphysical Physicist Quantum Physics

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.”

Stories Used Father New York Forty Fourth Thieves Gang Old New York

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.”

Years America Three Religious Hundred Years Ago England Forty Ancestor Eighteen New England Abolitionist

Author:Pete Seeger

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”

Men Age Funny Time Aging Every Man Old Age Birthday Forty Old People Getting Older Scoundrels Fortune Cookie 40th Birthday Milestone Birthday Man And Superman

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.”

Ifs Knows Years Matter Funny Sleep Focus Forty Sheep Rhyme Things That Matter

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.”

Firsts Ideas Seems Hate Five Century Dangerous Promise Happenings Species Paris Thirty Forty Jail Precedent Detention Celebs Malibu

Author:Rob Sheffield

“There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.”

Children States Home United Millions United States Mom Parenting Forty Stay Strong Stay Positive Stay At Home

Author:Andrew Shue

“Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.”

Men World Stills Fall Black Dark Loss Hundred Rain Crosses Blind Forty Nails Rainy Day Nineteen

Author:Edith Sitwell

“I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.”

Trying Running Used My Own Five Minutes Miles Forty Input Sensory

Author:Peter Steele

“Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.”

Years Chance Authority Years Ago Athlete Journalist Forty Prosecuting Pro Athlete

Author:Leigh Steinberg

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