“The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesArtInspirationLiteratureCreativityCreativePeriodsMusic IsUniqueMake SenseDesignerLiterature And Music Author:Carolina Herrera
“Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple.” TalkingMiddleCouplePeriods1930s Author:Gretl Braun
“[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.” WantTryingSpiritPeriodsLiftsWant Me Author:Gretl Braun
“Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.” LongPeriodsCriedRefrain Author:Gretl Braun
“The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.” CountryPartyTheoryRevolutionPeriodsSocialismPermanentContradictionBolsheviks Author:Leon Trotsky
“The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.” LawClassSeeingPositionRevolutionPeriodsDeterminedRevolutionaryCulmination Author:Leon Trotsky
“There was a long period of time when Sam Fuller had a lot of projects fall through and had a lot of difficulties getting a project off the ground. And I was able to observe him during that period, and see his incredible resiliency and courage as he faced this difficulty and just kept working.” LongAbleFallPeriodsProjectsDifficultyIncrediblesLong Periods Of TimeResiliency Author:Curtis Hanson
“After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.” YearsHardCreativeFiveDevelopmentInternetPeriodsThirtyFive YearsDomain1960sPublic Domain Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.” YearsBelieveReasonEarthThreeMillionsHugePeriodsYears AgoDestructionSpeciesScalesDestroyedMassiveQuartersFifthExtinctionAsteroids Author:Noam Chomsky
“On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.” PeopleKnowsShouldYearsLooksHeartKindLongHandsCertainCausesParentTermStudyAirHabitPeriodsHealthyDiseaseRedShould HaveStartingPlentyLong TermEtcLinksDisabilityFlagsPollutionExposureComprehensiveBeggingUnhealthyMedicationMercuryHeart DiseaseHealthy FoodDevelopmentalPesticidesRed FlagsAir PollutionUnhealthy FoodDevelopmental Disabilities Author:Jill Stein
“In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.” ArtSchoolNumbersStudentsPeriodsBritishContactArt School Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.” IdeasUseArtistCultureStylePeriods Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.” ThinkingWellsLittlesLongPhilosophyFormViewsPeriodsIntellectualEthicsToolsPhilosophicalBoxesTreatedVersionsContemptRespectableCalculusUtilitarianismTool Boxes Author:Allen W. Wood
“I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.” BelieveI BelieveAnswersMoralOughtPeriodsIndependentGenuineOur Thoughts Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.” HumansHuman BeingsPeriodsInnocent Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.” ThinkingTwoBigsJobsFilmYoungTurnsStarsDifferencesActingTroubleDyingPeriodsHollywoodPaintPhotographDeanBanned Author:Dennis Hopper
“I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at all, unfortunately. During that period I lived in France, I lived in England, I lived all over the place in different cities. I didn't take any photographs and because I felt I had really accomplished everything that I wanted to in photography during the period between 61 and 67.” DifferentWantedFeltCitiesPeriodsPhotographyEnglandPhotographFranceAccomplished Author:Dennis Hopper
“For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.” PeriodsScriptsDestructiveRehearsal Author:Peter Stone
“The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.” LittlesPeriodsSceneShotsRememberedFar AwayRehearsal Author:Peter Stone
“While they [on Cuba] were eating a healthy and sustainable diet and had no pollution over a period of years these health improvements were sustained. They spent zero dollars improving their health, but they had an absolute miracle of health improvements.” YearsPeriodsHealthyEatingMiracleAbsolutesDollarsImprovementDietsZeroPollutionImprovingCuba Author:Jill Stein
“Now, people can watch the entire first series over a period that would probably take you a couple of nights.” PeopleFirstsNightWatchesCouplePeriodsSeries Author:Tim Roth
“In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.” WorryPositionPeriodsThirdsCreditDebtHolesCardsLoanCredit CardWalletsSteepConsolidationCredit Card Debt Author:Jean Chatzky
“Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."” PlayCoursesBehindsGonePeriodsLeavingSonnetFadingRacksSpectaclesPageantTransienceProspero Author:Martha Ronk
“Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.” PeopleKindLongStatesGovernmentTogetherProcessChallengesUnitedUnited StatesInformationSourcePeriodsRemainsFolksIraqInterviewsSyriaRefugeeUnlikelyRobustState GovernmentLong Periods Of TimeUnited States GovernmentBiometrics Author:James Comey
“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.” WayYearsLooksThreeCreativityFiveFiguresProductsPeriodsPerformancesCompetitionCurrentsObviousOne WayCompareFive YearsThree YearsCapabilityRevenuePercentagesAccountingFive Year OldsAxesThree Year Olds Author:John Kao
“When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that. I was so glad to be rid of all that crap that for me, to learn again and to function as a human being and learn how to participate in the human race again was just pure joy.” PeopleHumansJoyDifficultHuman BeingsRacePeriodsPureFunctionGladHuman RaceCrapRehabPure Joy Author:Elton John
“I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBigsCreativityMillionsCreativePeriodsComputerDollarsPaintDiminish80sBig MovieCgi Author:Ethan Suplee
“If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.” IfsWould BeLastsWaterNew YorkPeriodsDrivingJerseyDinosaursPhiladelphiaNew Jersey Author:Kenneth Lacovara
“In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the Quaternary Period, which is within the Cenozoic Era. And within the Quaternary, we are in the Holocene Epoch.” EndsCasesPeriodsErasDinosaursEpoch Author:Kenneth Lacovara
“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.” MadeEnoughFactsTalkingAudienceAirCarPeriodsFlowChecksMainstreamBotheredTime PeriodsBuckminster FullerZephyr Author:Jonathon Keats
“I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.” LittlesMadeLyingCertainBitsActingPeriodsLittle BitSingingLaysStrainVocal Author:Robert Davi
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.” KindDifferentTodayNationsRealizingUnitedCommunicationAmountPeriodsMusic IsVarietyDifferent KindsFrankOutletsGreat AmericanJustinSteroidTime Periods Author:Robert Davi
“His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra grew up, as my grandparents did, when being Italian was very, very prejudice against, but they didn't let it bring them down or use it as an excuse.” WorldUseAmericaCertainVoiceGrewPeriodsGrew UpPrejudiceExcuseDefinedItalianFrankGrandparentBeing Italian Author:Robert Davi
“I was thinking about that. I was thinking, this is like our Boyhood; this is like our getting together over 12 years to make - this our Apehood! I mean, this is it! For me, the relationships, all of those things, over such a long period of time now with actors, but also seeing the characters grow, develop, and change, and go through different situations.” ThinkingYearsMeanLongDifferentCharacterTogetherActorsGrowsSituationSeeingPeriodsLong Periods Of TimeBoyhood Author:Andy Serkis
“It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.” MemoriesMy OwnPiecesPeriodsConsciousKillingVagueReally Weird Author:Cynthia Nixon
“I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.” WritingWarWantedModernPeriodsForgottenAfghanistanSovietAfghan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.” PeriodsFameBobDylan Author:Bob Dylan
“Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.” YearsSelfSongCareersWorstPeriodsBandIncludingBobPortraitsDylanGemsSelf Portrait Author:Bob Dylan
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.” FirstsSongWaterModernExampleReturnPeriodsTraditionalBobPhasesDylanTransformingApocalypticTraditional Music Author:Jay Michaelson
“That was an amazing time period [ CBGB filming] to transport to during filming - the clothes, the music, the lifestyle - it really helps to get into character when there's so much that changes from the moment you step onto the set.” MomentsCharacterHelpingStepsPeriodsClothesLifestyleTransportTime PeriodsCbgb Author:Ashley Greene
“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.” BodySchoolConsciousnessGrowing UpGrowingTaughtParticularPeriodsFemaleCatholicSensitiveVisibleMissionarySiteAsiaNunRepressedFemale BodyTime Periods Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.” YearsTwoBookDreamSuccessfulSonBirthPeriodsOrganizationSellingAdministrationBarackNightmareTwo YearsPublishingJoiningLaunchingDreams Came TrueSelling BooksSuccessful Organizations Author:Van Jones
“The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.” CharacterFilmCan DoGonePeriodsIndependentYou Can Do ItFormatIndependent Film Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.” TryingSometimesPeriodsVersionsDefining Author:John Calipari
“Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.” ThinkingYearsHumansEarthLastsPeriodsQuiet Author:Dale Jamieson
“'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.” WorldWayHumansEndsActionForcePowerfulTechnologySeriousPeriodsIndependentFundamentalsDistanceThreatPopulationDomainTransformingAutonomousHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.” InvolvedPeriodsResponding Author:Stephen Mallinder
“It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.” ImportantAbleSpiritPeriodsBandModelsPunk Author:Stephen Mallinder
“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.” ThinkingWarEnvironmentWallColdPeriodsPostsEtcMentalityCold WarReflectingPost War Author:Stephen Mallinder