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“The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?”

Thinking Years Has Beens Eye Lasts Next Millions Gone Air Percent Disappear Expected Decades Global Warming Forty Persist Unreality Already Gone

Author:Al Gore

“Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.”

People Body Percent Illness Treated Mental Illness Forty Physical Body

Author:Linda Hamilton

“Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.”

Book Different Involved Narrative Forty Narration

Author:Robert Benton

“I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.”

Writing Years Done Found Forty Retired Writing Poetry

Author:Frederick Busch

“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.”

“I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.”

People Feels Kids House Terrible London Forty

Author:M.I.A.

“It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.”

Trying Littles Pain Bits Interesting Little Bit Forgiving Disaster Forty Ownership Interesting Things Evaluate

Author:Uma Thurman

“I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.”

Degrees University Forty Ohio

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].”

Ifs Writing Trying Five Degrees Decided Not Sure Forty

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“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.”

Years Has Beens Home Strong Interest Natural Violence Fields Brother Advantage Eight Thirty Forty Topics Belts

Author:Jim Goad

“Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.”

Thinking Want Past Five Forty

Author:Paula Scher

“Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .”

Five Trump Hundred Court Including University Forty Outstanding Lawsuit

Author:George Stephanopoulos

“We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.”

Want Given Hours Chance Week Our Time Fifty Reaching Forty

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.”

People Humans Whole Natural Race Poverty Millions Land Resources Crisis Greed Human Race Forty Shelter Distress Stolen Natural Resources Public Lands

Author:Denis Kearney

“[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.”

“The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.”

People Shows Heard Industry Trump Hollywood Entertainment Forty Entertainment Industry

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.”

Thinking College Percent Population Forty Harvard Frost College Education Gertrude

Author:Robert Hass

“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.”

People Ifs Men Years Country Three Courses Black Teaching Century Produce Percent Thirds Caught Fifty Grades Forty Black People Three Years 19th Century Signatures Third Grade Penmanship

Author:Robert Hass

“[Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten and make it forty? We're still far from the senseless figures spread around by Mujib [Rahman] and Indra Gandhi.”

Knows Made Stills Cases Four Figures Ten Spread Appeals Forty

Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.”

Writing Courses Forty Harvard Alphabet Sofas Beta

Author:Seamus Heaney

“I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.”

People Knows Moving Rooms Tvs Listening Fit Presses Wings West Folks Tiny Nine Forty Conferences Initials Press Conferences Uptight

Author:Reince Priebus

“In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.”

People Kind Moral Taken Hollywood Code Native Forty Native American Accommodate Moral Code

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Kids America Young Stuff Parent Happenings Percent Adults Good Things Young Adult Forty

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.”

Mean Use Used Names Movement Seven Fifty Forty Opera Truthful Orchestra Disobedience Chorus Civil Disobedience Satyagraha Netherlands

Author:Philip Glass

“The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.”

Years Possibility Taught Mets Asking Forty Educator Asking Questions New Possibilities

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."”

“For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.”

Way Years Literature Gone Tasks Absolutes Forty Privileged Neurosis

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.”

Thinking Firsts Young Acting Revolution Forty Shocked Stamina Physicality

Author:Al Pacino

“I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When the family came out, that made me cry, and the reason I had a hard time leaving Grant Park was that to see a million people like that, feeling the way that million people felt, was so exhilarating.”

People Way Years Made Hard Reason Feelings Found Felt Millions Cry Leaving Parks Hard Times Forty Grants Jail Bloody Beaten Exhilarating Made Me Cry

Author:Bill Ayers

“It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices." But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.”

Ifs Needs Years Looks Kind I Can Different States Stories Might Kids Young Choices My Own Crazy Years Ago Forty Wealthy Empowered Places To Go

Author:Irvine Welsh

“One of the main aims of Sharon is to prevent a Palestinian state - a real, viable, sovereign, free Palestinian state. It has been the major task of his life for the last forty years. What Sharon wants to do is "shorten the lines," in military slang. He wants to give up some positions which are untenable, or which cost too much to keep, and to withdraw to where he wants Israel to be.”

Want Giving Years Has Beens Real States Lasts Lines Too Much Military Position Cost Giving Up Majors Tasks Aim Israel Forty Palestinian Sovereign Slang Sharon

Author:Uri Avnery

“The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China or Iran. This reflects a radical shift in criminal justice policy, a stunning development that virtually no one - not even the best criminologists - predicted forty years ago.”

World Years Doe States Justice United United States Policy Development Highest Years Ago Rate China Criminals Russia Radical Forty Iran Regimes Stunning Criminal Justice Incarceration

Author:Michelle Alexander

“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.”

People Ifs Way Years Kind Made Wanted Film Guy Levels Mets Directors Ten Lovely Finance Hotel Forty Spokes Cop Divorced Alcoholics Filth Soho Forty Years Old

Author:Irvine Welsh

“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.”

People Ifs Knows Crazy Behavior Percent Boring Thirty Forty Studious

Author:Irvine Welsh

“Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.”

Knows Years Lost Differences Walks Brain Know How Eating Years Ago Weight Forty Cream Jelly Doughnut Oatmeal

Author:Richard Simmons

“Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.”

Years Littles Said Next Wife Willing Conversation Picks Forty One Liner

Book:Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

“I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.”

Years Humans Next Human Beings Rooms Situation Roles Cutting Healthy Bounds Edges Tension Forty Friendly Sixty Unreasonable Cutting Edge

Author:John Lydon

“Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."”

Wish Goal Decision Taken Generous Forty Courageous Human Condition Hey You Back In Time Look At Yourself Go Back In Time

Author:Elif Batuman

“I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well. Be the best at what you can do for that particular job in life. That always resonated with me.”

Dad First Time My Dad Being The Best Forty

Author:Clint Eastwood

“What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.”

Age Forty Sixty

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.”

Past Responsibility Capitalism Ultimate Crisis Embrace Intense Forty Social Responsibility Ideological October Over The Past

Author:Chip Pitts

“In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.”

Giving Trying Past Universe Realizing Fit Daughter Forty My Daughter Guide Me Peg

Author:Natasha Gregson Wagner

“I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.”

Excited Forty Messy

Author:Jodie Evans

“I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so influential. If the trends of the last thirty or forty years are not halted and reversed - and those trends include increasingly inequality, a crumbling public life, a disintegrating public infrastructure, an exhausted ecology, and a huge war arsenal, and more and more war making - then I'm rather gloomy about the prospects for the American future and the harm that the United States could do to the world.”

Thinking World War Moments Political Inequality Forty Ecology Exhausted Influential Gloomy

Author:Frances Fox Piven

“The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write fifteen to twenty songs and pick the ones that represent this period of my life the most.”

Writing Song Forty

Author:Rick DeJesus

“Forty percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal. And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves. And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them. They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.”

Giving Reason Party Republican Democrat Conservative Forty Republican Party

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.”

Inspiration Attitude Holy Musician Passionate Speed Forty Aesthetic Good And Bad Fear Of Death Spoil Impatience Energetic Sloth

Author:Jussi Lehtisalo

“Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. Like with Frank Miller, Batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then Frank Miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. And Christopher Nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. The idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.”

Book Character Interesting Comic Forty Frank Comic Book Superhero Really Interesting Iconic Nolan

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.”

Country Lying Election Forty

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“Donald Trump is a president in crisis. His governing agenda is going nowhere, his credibility shattered with many, his public approval is mired in the thirties and low forties, and an escalating Russia crisis is threatening to undermine the president's ability to persuade even Republicans that he can bounce back.”

President Crisis Forty Threatening Credibility

Author:Chuck Todd

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