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“The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.”

Needs Past House Sports President White Week Economic Policy Activity Percent Thanks White House President Obama Leisure Over The Past Economic Policy Leisure Time

Author:Jay Leno

“I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.”

People Knows Years Stills I Can Past Turns Lost Quality Music Sorry Over The Past I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:Justin Bieber

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.”

Years Past Cameras Pleasant Over The Past Being Famous

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Self Past Bits Growing Awareness Little Bit Losing Edges Decades Technological Over The Past Delusional

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it.”

Knows Years Made Ends Happens Past Numbers Plans Over The Past

Author:Lights

“I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.”

People Has Beens Book Past Names Sides Memories Week Havens My Favorite Things To Do Copies Toms Routes Over The Past Thrillers Bookstores Favorites Things Maine Paws Fond Memories

Author:John Hodgman

“Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen how they are guided by mentors to understand particular norms within their disciplines and to learn about what they can and cannot, should and should not say, and which ideas can go together and which cannot. I never went through this process.”

Should Writing Ideas School Together Past Process Particular Discipline Decades Graduates Mentor Norm Over The Past Many Friends Graduate School Dissertation

Author:Dean Spade

“The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.”

Years Jobs America Past Understanding President Policy Particular Over The Past

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.”

Years Two Whole Use Inspiration Happens Past Three Process Nice Students Laughter Three Years Over The Past

Author:Cate Marvin

“The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.”

People Years Past Wealth Economy Illusion Hundred Harder Come Up Schemes Wages Manufacturing Over The Past Ponzi Scheme

Author:Alex Jones

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”

Looks War Past Future Philosophical Rose Empires Anti War Antiwar Over The Past

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.”

Years Has Beens Past Culture Party Environment Greater Economic Members Significant Over The Past

Author:Alex Campbell

“The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.”

Years Past Prison Population Folds Over The Past Prison Population

Author:Bobby Scott

“In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.”

Thinking Years Past House Given Dark Elements Six Scripts Over The Past Countryside Retrospect Haunted Houses

Author:Gillian Anderson

“A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.”

Years Made Together Past Song Three Sound Four Written Tests Albums Four Years Vocal Over The Past Test Of Time

Author:Vance Joy

“I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.”

Years Self Stories Wanted Past My Own Pieces Heard Couple I Realized Brands Isolation Teenage Over The Past Ohio Invisibility

Author:Travis Mathews

“To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.”

Thinking Years America Past Wish Football Twenties Bowls Suggestions Over The Past Super Bowl Death Wish Sumptuous

Author:Don DeLillo

“South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Real States Past Economy Quiet Projects South Range Australia Transformed Over The Past Quiet Confidence South Australia

Author:Jay Weatherill

“Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.”

Past Four Honesty South Decades Reporters Sensitivity Over The Past Bedrock

Author:Douglas Brinkley

“Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.”

Has Beens Past Decades Traditional Alternatives Pioneers Over The Past Innovators Cisco

Author:Barry O'Sullivan

“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.”

“We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future”

Past Values Europe Relation Remains Decades Partners Trading Over The Past Trading Partners

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.”

Years Has Beens Past Activity Ocean Currents Belts Over The Past Circulation Atlantic Ocean Ocean Currents

Author:Willie Soon

“The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.”

Years Long Past Force Roles Military Majors Areas Tasks Army Operations Canada Units Over The Past Port Departure Naval Military Operations Task Forces Halifax

Author:Willie Morris

“The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.”

Has Beens Play Stories Past Form Written Century Imitation Essays Over The Past Fragmented Personal Essays

Author:Robert Scholes

“I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.”

Way Years Moments Shows Wanted America Past Waiting Couple Commitment That Moment Pilots Over The Past

Author:Oliver Jackson-Cohen

“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.”

“Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.”

Past Love Is Over The Past Hope For The Future

Book:The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.”

“Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.”

Years Past Causes West Welfare Over The Past Cultural Change

Author:Martin Durkin

“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.”

“It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.”

“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred from the public sphere. This is not law. It is religious prejudice.”

Should Has Beens Past Law Community Religious Four Prejudice Decades Genuine Phenomenon Spheres Over The Past Steadfast Insistence Religious Prejudice

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.”

Years Past Social Differences Levels Tools Various Our Society Over The Past Social Systems

Book:Selected speeches and writings

Source: Selected speeches and writings

“I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.”

Thinking World Years Past Thousand Ideology Thousand Years Lenses Over The Past Poisonous

Author:Terence McKenna

“It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.”

Needs Years Past Focus Intelligent Strongest Over The Past Adaptability Adaptive

Author:Kenneth I. Chenault

“Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.”

Years Stills Past Millions Laughing Jokes Bob Employed Over The Past Make Me Laugh Gags

Author:Eddie Murphy

“Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.”

World Years Two Play Past Turns Opportunity Five Planets Percent Hollywood Opening Around The World Thirty Two Years Decline Location Seventies Over The Past Harmonicas

Author:Jon Stewart

“When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.”

Years Looks Important Enough Bigs Past Effort Company Lessons Evidence Over The Past Big Companies

Author:Peter Senge

“In fashion, there's a lack of strong male images. And there's a huge lack of strong African American images. I noticed over the past thirteen years, Ralph and those guys have used guys that looked similar to me. And I was happy for those guys, but eventually I said, 'Enough is enough, I'm just going to go in and take my job back.'”

Years Said Enough Jobs Past Used Guy Strong Fashion Huge Males African American Over The Past Thirteen Enough Is Enough

Author:Tyson Beckford

“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.”

Two Seems Past Media Particular Painting Photography Performances Leaving Decades Boundaries Mediums Sculpture Over The Past

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.”

Thinking World Years Past Humanity Century Evidence Obvious Developing Pessimism Fashionable Over The Past Pessimistic Expectancy Life Expectancy Thinking About The Future

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.”

World Years Stills Today Past Given Issues Doubt Land Hundred Direct Impact Patterns No Doubt Britain Ownership Conquest Over The Past Descendants Global Issues Norman Conquest

Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.”

Past Evil Generations Objects Ten Six Smoking Chocolate Commandments Immoral Unhealthy Over The Past Ten Commandments Unsafe Past Generations

Author:David Brooks

“One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.”

Years Hard Past Found Opportunity Careers One Thing Musician Stomach Over The Past Djs Career Opportunities

Author:Erol Alkan

“You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.”

Thinking Men Years Past White Pieces Ten Speech Twenties Hip Hop Hips Hops White Man Adopted Over The Past

Author:Jess Row

“I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.”

Way Years Believe Past Form Creative Particular Materials Intellectual Including Discouraged Over The Past

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

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