“The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.” WorldTwoPastFallMiddleRoseRateEastDecadesRegionsMiddle EastOver The PastMalnutritionSub Saharan Africa Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-term thing. I don't think that's easy on a person, especially under the kind of terrorism that doctors of his kind have seen over the past twenty years. He's a tough guy.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindPersonsJobsPastGuyEasyTermReligiousLateToughDoctorsTwentiesCommittedTerrorismHardestAssociatesOver The PastTough GuyHardest Job Author:John H Richardson
“I've failed so many times in my life that my recovery time has improved. I'm better at redirecting my attention. I've trained in Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics over the past couple of years and that has allowed me to see how much we project our failures onto others. It has taught me to accept myself. There is real power in owning your truth.” YearsRealPastAttentionAcceptingTaughtCoupleProjectsCoreRecoveryRadicalOver The PastReal Power Author:Damon Runyon
“There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.” PeopleHas BeensReasonHomeKidsPastWinningParentSituationDeeperDecadesIsolationTrendsUnfortunateSoloInvolvementAccumulationOver The PastRaising Kids Author:Carolyn Hax
“You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.” PeopleHardPastMinutesExtraordinaryListening To MusicOver The Past Author:Will Oldham
“The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So, I'll play a beautiful young widow who saves her people from the Assyrians.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingYearsReasonPlayStoriesWantedPastBeautifulYoungRolesLateToughSexyToo LateBiblicalEpicWidowsOver The PastGalsBefore It's Too LateAssyrians Author:Charles Busch
“A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.” YearsPastCoupleIncrediblesAlbumsRapDecadesButterflyExtensionsOver The PastPimp Author:Kendrick Lamar
“A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.” MenWorldPersonsPastHoursPowerfulRaceFireGroupsMonthsRepublicanRagePrimariesMost PowerfulOver The PastAbominationStokeDumpstersPowerful Person Author:Chris Hayes
“But more important, I think, is the criticism bin Laden has made publicly over the past 10 years that Muslim governments cannot even protect their own people. And more than that, they'll often collude with the infidels. And if you recall, the initial reaction of the Arab league was to criticize Hezbollah and damn Hezbollah for the war. And they eventually had to turn 180degrees and support Hezbollah.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsMadeImportantWarGovernmentPastTurnsSupportProtectCriticismReactionsDamnLeagueCriticizeRecallsInitialsBin LadenOver The PastInfidelHezbollah Author:Michael Scheuer
“Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.” YearsWould BePastInterestingRecordsCoupleCommittedOver The Past Author:Scott Hutchison
“The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.” PastThreeIndividualCareersRolesChangedBalanceNewsDecadesGood NewsAutonomyOver The PastWomen's RolesIndividual Autonomy Author:Michael Kimmel
“I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsBelieveLongStillsPastFormStrongI BelieveQualityTechnologyDemandDepthDespiteJournalismOver The Past Author:Chris Hughes
“Something quite special has played out in the picturesque valleys and mountains, towns and villages of France over the past three weeks. For all who appreciate sport, it was a privilege and an inspiration to watch.” InspirationPastThreeSportsWatchesWeekSpecialMountainAppreciateTownsPrivilegeFranceVillageValleysInspirational SportsOver The PastPicturesque Author:Paul Ramadge
“If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.” IfsTryingYearsLooksPastCommunityCareersColorLowsTwentiesCornersIncomeOver The PastAround The CornerLow Income Author:Van Jones
“One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.” YearsPastPoliticalMy OwnAnalysisOver The PastReevaluating Author:Tony Blair
“I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's undersea, it's in cyber. Estonia in 2007, hit by Russian cyber-attacks. So what you see there with those exercises are critical.” ThinkingYearsPastAirSeaExerciseCriticalOver The PastNatoCyberModernizationEstoniaCyber AttacksUndersea Author:Michael Leiter
“We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.” MenYearsPastBlackLosesHeardCoupleOver The Past Author:Sterling K. Brown
“Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.” YearsHardStatesPastChallengesUnitedLeaderPrinciplesUnited StatesEconomicSecurityParticularShapesInnovationSouthClimateClimate ChangeProsperityEightEastCaliforniaRegionsPartnershipIntegrationAsiaPromotingSummitStrategicOver The PastEast AsiaGlobal HealthEconomic IntegrationAsean Author:Barack Obama
“We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesStatesPastNationsNumbersGrowingBloodCenturyReturnEuropeHistoricalDecadesFamiliarDemonSoilRhetoricOver The PastDeclaringJuncture Author:Martin Schulz
“They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRunningPastLawPrinciplesRightsCenturyProductsDevelopmentNegativeCorporationsDifferent KindsOver The PastAmerican LawPersonal Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.” ThinkingYearsPastFoundationPressesClintonThanksEmailOver The PastOverboard Author:Kevin Drum
“Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.” YearsPastSeaSummerClimateWinterClimate ChangeIceFiftyVillageShoreProtectedOver The PastArcticAlaskans Author:Ray Metcalfe
“There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.” YearsPastProgressViolencePercentIraqCiviliansOver The PastCivilian Deaths Author:David Petraeus
“US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number of coalition countries have also increased their forces, there still are not sufficient troops.” YearsHas BeensStillsTwoCountryPastForceNumbersSufficientTwo YearsAfghanistanTroopsOver The PastCoalitions Author:David Petraeus
“Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point.” YearsTwoHomePastThreeMonthsSixBoatGirlfriendJust OneMy GirlfriendOver The PastThree Months Author:Travis Rice
“America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.” YearsIdeasShowsAmericaPastIssuesWonderfulHundredStartingGreat ThingsFlawedOver The PastSprung Author:Peter Buffett
“That whole day [ of the space flight] is very vividly impressed on my memory because it was such a new experience. We hadn't done that before. And then I've recalled it so often since then I think that it's a - it's remained very vivid over the past 50 years, seems to me like about a week or two instead of 50 years.” ThinkingYearsTwoDoneWholeSeemsPastMemoriesSpaceWeekFlightImpressedVividOver The PastNew ExperiencesSpace Flight Author:John Glenn
“We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had to have knee replacements unfortunately over the past year, and it made it more difficult to climb up on the airplane. We weren't using it that much so we did - it hurt a lot but I finally sold the airplane.” YearsMadePastDifficultHurtMade ItKneesClimbsAirplaneIt HurtsOver The PastReplacementsAnnie Author:John Glenn
“I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.” NeedsFeelsYearsHas BeensWholePastAttentionTalkingFiveConversationSixHappeningsPaidImpactPrisonDialogueReformVansOver The PastBipartisanNewtsPrison Reform Author:Ava DuVernay
“I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensPastRolesMilitaryVariousDecadesActivismIslamicOver The PastCounterproductiveUs Military Author:James Mattis
“Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.” YearsHas BeensPastTraditionWingsHistorianSouthernRight WingOver The PastProgressivism Author:John Darnielle
“That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.” WayHas BeensCountryPastWinningLosesAcceptingSuccessfulCenturyLimitsOutcomesCanadaQuartersOver The Past Author:David Frum
“I would point out is that most of the change over the past 5,000 years has been arithmetic, and it now logarithmic. Digitization, the whole Moore's law thing where it doubles every 18 months - that is a speed that is faster than most people are used to.” PeopleYearsHas BeensWholePastLawUsedMonthsSpeedFasterOver The PastArithmeticMoore's Law Author:Ken Moelis
“The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."” MenYearsTodayPastStrongChallengesRightsSubjectsCenturyMovementKingsNewsHundredTraditionEnvironmentalProgressivePartnershipGood NewsConquestDominationShiftingOver The Past18th CenturyYear OneProgressive Movement Author:Riane Eisler
“I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening. I'm a passionate person, who is not afraid to express emotion in print.” ThinkingYearsPersonsPastVoiceEmotionToo MuchPassionatePrintNot AfraidCynicalOver The Past Author:Suhayl Saadi
“Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.” PeopleWayArtPastArt IsOver The PastRefinementAnthropologists Author:Pat Steir
“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.” PastResponsibilityCapitalismUltimateCrisisEmbraceIntenseFortySocial ResponsibilityIdeologicalOctoberOver The Past Author:Chip Pitts
“My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud of womanhood, and I feel attached to it, and at the same time I'm someone who doesn't believe in having a gender binary, and so often times I separate those two concepts in my mind - the concept of being a woman and the concept of being a girl or being female, being kind of attached to a certain gender identity.” MindBelieveKindPastGirlIdentityProudFemaleGenderBe KindWomanhoodOver The PastBinaryBeing A Girl Author:Amandla Stenberg
“The beauty industry is always led by innovation. When you think about over the past three or four years, some of the best innovation in our industry has come from Korea.” ThinkingPastInnovationOver The Past Author:Bradley Horowitz
“I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate than anyone I can think of over the past twenty years, and she hasn't cracked under it. That's a kind of iron fortitude that maybe we need in the President of the United States. People project on to Hillary because she is a woman. They either hate her for everything they hate about women or they long for her to be everything they want in a woman. It's an impossible burden.” PeopleThinkingKindLongPastHatePresidentImpossibleBurdenAdmireFortitudeOver The Past Author:Sara Paretsky
“In all of my speeches I talk about why a strong Europe is necessary in order for Germany to be strong over the long term. I think that I have sufficiently shown over the past years that I have a clear notion of how we can make Europe stronger, more democratic and more inclusive. There is really no competition there with Sigmar Gabriel.” ThinkingLongPastStrongTermStrongerCompetitionDemocraticLong TermOver The Past Author:Martin Schulz
“Maintaining news cycle is the job. It's always been the job. This is just more intense. You find out what the story is, you use the tools you have to get clear on it, you bring the knowledge that you've built up over the past however long. Part of the trick is just having people who know what they're doing. In terms of the pace, yeah, it's exhausting. I feel for all of us in the media, and in the White House and in the country. I mean, this is not a fun time.” PeopleMeanLongCountryPastHouseFunTermIntenseOver The PastFun Times Author:Ezra Klein
“Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.” WorldRealSometimesCharacterPastMy FamilyGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeOver The PastSaddened Author:Robin Hobb
“While the armed forces have intervened in the political affairs of every other Central American country over the past fifty years, with disastrous results, in Costa Rica we have peacefully transferred power from one administration to the next every four years.” CountryPastPoliticalAffairOver The PastArmed Forces Author:Oscar Arias
“What keeps me up late at night, in the sense of worry, I guess it's innovation. It's funny to be worried about it, because it's a fair point that wow, look at the innovation we've seen over the past, not just 30 years, but over the past two years.” PastNightWorryInnovationWorriedOver The Past Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.” CountryTodayPastHonestUniqueVictimMeaningfulJournalismJournalistCongoOver The Past Author:Anjan Sundaram
“Even though I've mostly done movies, TV has developed in such a wonderful way over the past few years in the sense that film directors are being involved and some fantastic actors are committing to seasons of series. There are some fantastic writers working in that medium right now.” DonePastFilmWonderfulFantasticOver The Past Author:Thekla Reuten
“I don't know if that's new, but it has become very official over the past 25 or 30 years - and today it's probably at its most extreme point, where sometimes collections look more like a stylist's work than a designer's signature.” SometimesTodayPastOver The Past Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong. Comics aren't really misunderstood either, they've just been mostly silly for the past century, and those genre-centered stories have found their way into the movie theaters over the past couple of decades because a generation who grew up reading them has, well, grown up.” PeopleThinkingPastFilmReadingCoupleSillyMisunderstoodOver The PastMovie Theater Author:Chris Ware
“I lose faith every time I have to start a new page, and this is no joke. I've occasionally been criticized over the past couple of years for publicly "complaining" about how difficult drawing comics is, yet I've only mentioned it so that the younger cartoonists who are trying it out and finding it difficult and painful realize that they're not alone. There's not really any set way of learning how to do this, and it's always a struggle to improve, and, more importantly, see accurately whether or not one's work is communicating any shred of feeling or truth at all.” TryingFeelingsPastDifficultRealizingStruggleCoupleJokesPainfulCommunicateComplainingNot AloneOver The PastCartoonist Author:Chris Ware