Decades Quotes - Page 9

• In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

  David Knopfler

  Taken, Way, Honest

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• Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Men, Two, Years

  "Lilly Ledbetter DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Powerful, Doors, Input

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• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Roger Mudd

  Country, Past, Media

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• Durante décadas, la norma periodística había sido que la vida privada de los funcionarios públicos seguía siendo privada a menos que esa vida afectara a la actuación pública.

  Roger Mudd

  Norma, Actuaciones, Vida privada

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• When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Daddy, Entering, Half

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• I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Years, China

  "La Gran Muralla del Sonido", por Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. 26 de agosto de 2007.

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• Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

  Louise Penny

  Jealous, Writing, Self

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• En las dos últimas décadas hemos asistido a una clara erosión de los valores éticos.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Pasado, Erosión, Dos

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Especial]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. 09 th Of July de 2002.

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• Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

  Bill Pascrell

  Law, Class, Long

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• I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

  Dana Plato

  Sober, Jokes, Has Beens

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.

  Danny Pino

  Differences, Together, Able

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• We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

  Yorgos Papandreu

  Country, Greek, Needs

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• Hay ciertos momentos en la historia de una nación en los que las decisiones que se toman definen las décadas venideras.

  Yorgos Papandreu

  Choices Made, Moments, Certain

  "Papandreu desvela reformas radicales para salvar las finanzas públicas griegas" por Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. 14 de diciembre de 2009.

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• I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

  Tom Perrotta

  Religious, Littles, Obsessed

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• I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.

  Matthew Rhys

  Patagonia

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• Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

  Steven Rattner

  Children, Thanks, Social

  "Stop Stealing From Our Kids" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

  David Sylvian

  Song, Fun, Creating

  "David Sylvian: 'Do gentlemen still take Polaroids? I think they take Viagra now!'". Interview with Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.

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• En una época de continuo crecimiento demográfico las consecuencias son devastadoras, huelga decirlo. La Tierra ya está demasiado poblada en términos de aura, y crece al 20% por década.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Growth

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• We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

  Richie Sambora

  Fans, Tres, Generaciones

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• Comprobé si se había publicado algún libro realmente bueno en las últimas décadas. Luego empecé con lo que habría leído Cleopatra, preguntándome: "¿Qué podemos saber sobre su educación?". Resultó ser muchísimo y, extrañamente, nadie había escrito antes sobre ello.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Asking, Lasts

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

  Amy Waldman

  País, Pasado, Pensamiento

  "The Fraught, Fictional Road To A Sept. 11 Memorial". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 15, 2011.

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• In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

  Chely Wright

  Christian, Home, Community

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Technology, Cells, Blood

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• Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

  Eric Bolling

  Jobs, Years, Add

  "¿Quién es responsable de la caída de Ramadi: Irak o EEUU?". "The Five" con Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling y Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. 19 de mayo de 2015.

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