- Nov 07, 2020
Forty Years Quotes
Looking back across four decades of change.
These forty years quotes compare a scientist's long career path with a family that still finds a past event hard to discuss even decades later. See our Age quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Broadened
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After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020