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“I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.”

People Knows Years Mind Wells Age Black White Media Roots Thirty Native Forty Association Native American Ignored Asian Hispanic Multicultural Asian American

Author:Ishmael Reed

“You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.”

Writing Years Happens Twenties Thirty Forty Whatever Happens Gravy

Author:John Guare

“I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.”

People Bigs Attention Crowds Clubs Thirty Forty

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.”

Hands Fiction Fantasy Novel Horror Shadow Science Fiction Forty Savages Thrillers Hooked Pulp Avengers

Author:James Rollins

“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.”

People Feels Years May Children Ideas Country States Happens Given Hours United Destiny Cases United States Four Twenties Determine Disappear Forty Occupation Frightening Justification Cnn

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].”

Men Kids Age Realizing Accepting Middle Baby Fifty Forty Mortality Ignored Middle Ages Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:John Travolta

“Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Two Play Film Three Asks House Happened Strange Needed Directors Casts Thirty Theme Fifty Forty Melody One Time Twins Principal Duos

Author:Michel Legrand

“We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.”

Years Today Moving Class College Higher Cost Years Ago University Forty Wealthy Working Class Higher Education Great American Moving In Tuition Wrong Direction

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.”

Years Wanted School Answers Crazy Birth Adults Forty Spokes Potty

Author:Sharon Stone

“We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?”

People Millions Four Safe Logic Aids Treated Forty Discussing Safe Places

Author:Sharon Stone

“Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”

People Knows Years Heart Ends Done Jobs Remember Five Teacher Hero Six Twenties Good Things Satisfied Thirty Forty Suspects

Author:Andy Rooney

“One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.”

“It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.”

Men Air Feet Forty One Man Feet On The Ground

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.”

Years Wife My Wife Enjoyed Forty Blitz

Author:Hugh Leonard

“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.”

Believe States President Born United United States Four Citizens Republican Percent Barack Forty Voters Presidency President Barack Obama Unconstitutional

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don't feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.”

People Knows Way Feels Age Stuff Mirrors Forty Performers Misconception Calendars

Author:Robert Plant

“I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.”

Kind Kids Parent Teacher Grew Drama Grew Up Adults Towns Raises Code Forty Influential Weirdo

Author:Meghan Daum

“I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.”

Men Years Different Guy Five Six Summer Adults Eight Wide Spending Range Forty Disability Camps Different Place Great Times Syndromes Cabins

Author:Arthur Bradford

“To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.”

Thinking Decades Fantastic Forty

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."”

Thinking Knows Would Be Guy Albums Forty Really Cool

Author:Craig Finn

“I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.”

Years Two Minutes Dying Forty Two Years Sensible

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.”

People Ifs Knows Hard Social Sadness Twenties Aids Instance Forty Social Life

Author:Hilton Als

“Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.”

People Men Years Stills Film He Man Males Partners Primaries Shooting Perceive Filmmaker Forty Editing

Author:Chris Hegedus

“I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.”

People Men Percent Medicine Seven Heal Forty Eighty Dissatisfied Beauty Within

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.”

World Firsts Book Kids Boys Particular Thirds Starting Drawing Obsession Comic Grades Forty Classroom Comic Book Superhero My Boys Dreamy Classmates Third Grade Marvel Comics

Author:Adam Ross

“There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.”

People Writing Interest Results Products Industry Studios Forty Assets Contracts Commodity

Author:Sally Field

“Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we're in our mid-late forties and we're still skateboarding in competitions. Who'd have ever thought?”

Mean Stills Age Brother Involved Late Competition My Brother Forty Hanging Out Skates Really Amazing Skateboarding

Author:Christian Hosoi

“I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.”

Thinking Years Stills Hard Whole Film Proud Directors Bigger Nostalgia Forty Gaps Creeds Involvement

Author:Bun B

“The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.”

People Law Percent Crosses Currents Immigration Administration Barack Borders Forty Illegal Exit Entry Illegal Immigration Visa Biometrics

Author:Ted Cruz

“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.”

People Problem Dream Wish Groups Mankind Authority Twenties Unhappy Thirty Forty Entertaining Teens

Author:George Carlin

“Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.”

People Children Body Parent Trouble Havens Addiction Financial Blow Divorce Disaster Forty Bankruptcy This Society

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the time, can heal themselves and those they love, with the help of their family, friends, and community.”

People Years Helping Process Community Healing Wise Heal Forty Elders Therapists Family Friends Healing Process

Author:Jed Diamond

“I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is that I was always keenly aware that life was fleeting, and that you'd better live while you have the chance. As I say in the book, since I was 19 years old I felt like I was living for two, and when I out-lived my mother, when I got into my forties, it felt like a miracle to me.”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Two Book Mother Felt Chance Terrible Miracle Forty Fleeting

Author:Anna Quindlen

“One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.”

Mean Might Pieces Forty Connecting Dots One Piece Graffiti Connecting The Dots

Author:Kim Rossmo

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.”

World Years Seems Forty

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“There was a point where if you had told me I was going to be a national morning anchor, I would probably have been terrified. But now, I feel prepared. I've been in the business for almost 20 years now. I'm almost forty years old and I've been doing this for a long time, so I felt like, "Okay, I'm ready to do this."”

Ifs Feels Years Long Has Beens Felt Morning Ready Long Time Okay Prepared Forty Terrified Anchors Forty Years Old

Author:Ainsley Earhardt

“In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the history of the world. In 2009 alone there were 1.6 million drug-related arrests in the U.S. 1.3 million of these were for possession of drugs alone. Over half were related to marijuana. The forty-year war on drugs has cost $2.5 trillion.”

World Years War Country Today Behinds Half Millions Cost Drug Possession Bars Related Forty Prisoner Marijuana World History War On Drugs

Author:Sam Branson

“One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!”

Long Bigs Might Worry Becoming Projects Lists I Realized Cooks Forty Dropping Relieved Stop Worrying Milestone Skiers

Author:Arianna Huffington

“My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.”

People Years Stills Self Mother Three Talking Conversation Empowerment Tools Everyday Feminist Possession Forty Three Years Patriarchy Self Empowerment Unsuspecting

Author:Ani DiFranco

“The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.”

Ifs Years War Government Courses Gone Five Failing Drug Incredibles Fifty Forty War On Drugs

Author:Richard Branson

“I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world.”

“I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat. Then, eight to ten years ago, when I found out the life of a dairy cow is way worse than the life of a beef cow, I understood I had to switch to complete veganism. Otherwise, I would be very inconsistent in my beliefs that animals shouldn't be abused for food.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Two Would Be Dies Found Belief Animal Ten Understood Years Ago Eight Forty Two Years Vegetarian Cows Veganism Beef Inconsistent Dairy Dairy Cows

Author:Sam Simon

“If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.”

Ifs Trying Persons Two Play Care Pieces Musician Don't Care I Don't Care Forty Orchestra Ensemble Duets

Author:John Densmore

“If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Two Together Audience Pieces Thousand Garden Tonight Forty Squares Twelve Orchestra Ensemble Madison Duets Madison Square Garden

Author:John Densmore

“The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.”

People Feels Persons Play Moving Space Pieces Mom Warm Forty Orchestra Womb Heartbeat Ensemble Duets Groovy

Author:John Densmore

“I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?”

Want Waiting White Twenties Boxes Settling Girlfriend Meals Forty Apartment Mediocre Settling In

Author:Daphne Oz

“Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.”

Years Goal Four Forty Four Years Aspire

Author:Michael Skolnik

“I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.”

Has Beens Five Healthy Mets Late Concepts Thanks Forty Trainers Healthy Food Nutritionist

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.”

Want Long Has Beens Stills Stars Powerful Long Time Hollywood Forty Movie Star Powerful Women

Author:Kathy Bates

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