Decades Quotes

• There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Happens
  • Week
  • Decades

• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Two
  • Once
  • Decades

• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Intense

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• I am thrilled at the prospect of being in Dubai after more than two decades.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Decades
  • Thrilled
  • Dubai

• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Arithmetic
  • Origins
  • Endlessly

• Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

  

  Gerry Beckley America
  • Proof
  • Pops
  • ABBA

• In our view, it is important to carefully preserve (the system that) has been built up over the decades and that has also functioned as a guarantee of international security.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Up
  • Important
  • Security

• What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Internet

• Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. To me it was the most depressing thing, these full-scale military interventions firsthand for a number of years, seeing how quickly we can get involved in another war with very little debate.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Control
  • Involved
  • Debate

• I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Youth
  • Industry

• As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

  

  James Woolsey
  • People
  • Move
  • Nervous

• I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Done
  • Young
  • Havens

• Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Past
  • Changes
  • Events

• It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

  

  Reg E. Cathey
  • Funny
  • Change
  • Ambitions

• I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Decades
  • Phone Calls
  • Housebound

• Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.

  

  Ari Up
  • Perfect
  • Scene
  • Brilliant

• Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Science
  • Decades
  • Advancements

• After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Pain
  • Influence

• For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They've made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Believe
  • Criminals
  • Decades

• The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Should
  • Numbers
  • Themselves

• Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Pain

• Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

  

  Michelle Alexander
  • Today
  • Subjects
  • Discrimination

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