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“If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.”

People Ifs Years Would Be Film Audience Clear Years Ago Thirty Documentaries Thirty Years Parody Documentary Films

Author:Errol Morris

“Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.”

Years Millions Periods Prison Population Thirty Jail Thirty Years Prison Population

Author:Michelle Alexander

“It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.”

“Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.”

“For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in secret prisons, all with the help of the United States. That's serious piracy.”

People Years Has Beens States Helping Water United Secret United States Serious Prison Killing International Israel Ships Thirty Thirty Years Hostage Piracy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels you all into a binary either/or with all kinds of spin-offs. This is deeply unhealthy. The trouble is that the way the system is set up in order to get in and try to change it you have to be (a) a millionaire, (b) someone who can work inside the system long-term, (c) someone prepared to make deals and compromises... Which does rule out the vast majority of committed Christians.”

“Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.”

Years Right Now Degrees Years Ago Remains Core Scales Thirty Abandoned Detroit Thirty Years Suburbs Meadows Rebuilding Slums Wildflowers

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.”

“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.”

“I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.”

Ifs Thinking Years Lost California Thirty Thirty Years And Off Always With You

Author:Pico Iyer

“Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.”

People Years Persons Lasts Culture House Thirty Customs American Culture Thirty Years Melville

Author:Frederic Tuten

“Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.”

Thinking Years Important Jobs Company Careers Gone Bored Thirty Employee Retiring Ceo Thirty Years Highlights Mobility Millennials

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.”

Years Long Age Life Is Next Work Decision Secret Careers Thirty Sixty Long Life Thirty Years Double Standard

Author:David Ogilvy

“Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.”

Ifs Knows Years Play Body Sports Brain Doctors Baseball Thirty Fifteen Thirty Years Fifteen Years Fifteen Years Old Thirty Years Old

Author:Pete Rose

“A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.”

Knows Years Enjoy Laughing Comedy Expression Jokes Thirty Thirty Years Facial Facial Expression

Author:Eli Roth

“It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.”

Trying Years Athlete Thirty Performers Thirty Years

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.”

People Years Kind Past Common Economy Car Demand Taxes Behavior Standards Raises Method Oil Thirty Fuel Gas Reducing Thirty Years Over The Past Gasoline Fuel Economy

Author:James Surowiecki

“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”

Years Equal India Presses Thirty Grants Division Republic Inheritance Thirty Years Free Press Republic Day

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.”

Ifs Thinking Years Made Shows Business Five Twenties Musical Thirty Show Business Thirty Years Twenty Five

Author:Christopher Walken

“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”

Years Two Lasts Technology Truth Is Thousand Opposites Increase Thirty Advancement Corny Thirty Years Commentary Advanced Technology

Author:Niels Bohr

“n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

“Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.”

Knows Men Years Lasts Liberty Twenties Blow Strikes Quitting Every Man Thirty Wicked Boss Sensible Worthless Flattery Thirty Years Parasites There Comes A Time Yawning Nevermind

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”

“Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.”

Years Groups Dad Thirty Mum Monkeys Thirty Years Old You Your Mum Mum And Dad Thirty Years Old

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.”

Years Looks Made Said Mother Thirty Italian Thirty Years Thirty Years Old

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”

People Ifs Years May Teach Weight Shoulders Thirty Sinner Not Afraid Madmen Thirty Years Lobster

Author:James A. Baldwin

“You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.”

Years Wise Thirty Etc Mature Being Wise Thirty Years Cannibal

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.”

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Ends Hard Singing Red Fruit Thirty Grandchildren Thirty Years Momentary Flowering Coarse Swollen

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

Thinking Years Laughing Waste Laughter Immortality Thirty Wasting Time Thirty Years Make You Laugh

Book:Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.”

Trying Years Stories Moving Realizing Dark My Own Surface Thirty Leap Riding Blades Thirty Years Loops Skimming Moving To Fast

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

Way Years Heart Broken Thirty Thirty Years

Book:The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away

Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.”

Years Heard Months Thirty Bob Depressing Dylan Thirty Years Thirty Years Old Most Depressing

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.”

Years Care Heaven Waiting Wonderful Don't Care I Don't Care Thirty Thirty Years

Book:The Wednesday Letters: A Novel

Source: The Wednesday Letters: A Novel

“sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful”

World Want Years Beautiful Hundred Distance Thirty Get Away Thirty Years Sad Things Distance Myself World Is Beautiful

Author:Tao Lin

“The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.”

World Years Humans Done Certain Behinds Movement Particular Painting Duty Please Shapes Concern Debt Drawing Genuine Thirty Sentiments Thirty Years Souvenirs Drawing And Painting

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.”

Years Long Made Interest Sin Mines Sight Made It Fallen Thirty Assurance Thirty Years

Author:Donald Cargill

“Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.”

Years Made Felt Grass Thirty Buried Thirty Years Graveyard Tidy

Author:Kim Harrison

“Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.”

Men Way Feels Years Sports Development Thirty Old Man Software Thirty Years Software Development Decrepit Professional Sports Thirty Years Old

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!”

Years Said Fall Next Tears Towns Hot Thirty Confused Afternoon Cried Jordan Thirty Years Verge Daisies Morbid Crisps So Confused Said Life

Book:(The Great Gatsby)

Source: (The Great Gatsby)

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

“Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.”

Years Thirty Throat Wiser Thirty Years Oracles Mouthpiece

Book:The Colossus: and Other Poems

Source: The Colossus: and Other Poems

“John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.”

Years Enough Facts Names My Own Trouble Bears Fit Years Ago Overcoming Stores Foolish Limitation Thirty Founders Thirty Years Fretting

Book:How to enjoy your life and your job

Source: How to enjoy your life and your job

“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.”

“So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.”

Knows Needs Years Believe Rooms Five Minutes Dying Broken Wall Refuse Bones Thirty Parks Five Minutes Thirty Years Leading Me Scotch Thirty Years Old

Book:Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

“I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.”

Men Years Age Saws Wife Changed Be Good Thirty Thirty Years Good Woman

Book:Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

Source: Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

“It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.”

Years Ideas Lying Opinion Hard Work Prejudice Contemporary Noise Thirty Nonsense New Ideas Sheer Inability Thirty Years Noisy Mendel

Author:Wilfred Trotter

“War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.”

Years War Hands Causes Liberty Conditions Europe Thirty Usual Thirty Years Causes Of War

Author:Peter Kropotkin

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