Quotes about Decade

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record. Votes: 3

When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters. Votes: 3

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged. Votes: 3

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. Votes: 2

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice. Votes: 2

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history. Votes: 2

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. Votes: 2

There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon. Votes: 2

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. Votes: 2

When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade. Votes: 2

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world. Votes: 2

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency. Votes: 2

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. Votes: 2

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram. Votes: 2

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money. Votes: 2

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes. Votes: 2

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade. Votes: 2

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. Votes: 2

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Votes: 2

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. Votes: 2

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. Votes: 2

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia. Votes: 2

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. Votes: 2

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. Votes: 2

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. Votes: 2

I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist! Votes: 2

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all! Votes: 2

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Votes: 2

I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. Votes: 2

The nineties, ecstatic decade! Votes: 0

The nineties, ecstatic decade!" Votes: 0

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time. Votes: 0

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments. Votes: 0

This mission was the project of a decade's work. Votes: 0

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves. Votes: 0

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade. Votes: 0

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white. Votes: 0

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade. Votes: 0

A century is about events. A decade is about people. Votes: 0

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Votes: 0

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. Votes: 0

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative. Votes: 0

There has been one defining production for me in each decade. Votes: 0

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after. Votes: 0

I've been living out of a suitcase for over a decade. Votes: 0

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade Votes: 0

I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life. Votes: 0

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade Votes: 0

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade. Votes: 0

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer. Votes: 0

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present. Votes: 0

Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally. Votes: 0

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody. Votes: 0

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point. Votes: 0

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade. Votes: 0

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade. Votes: 0

If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing, Votes: 0

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade. Votes: 0

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade. Votes: 0

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup. Votes: 0

Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course. Votes: 0

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade. Votes: 0

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade. Votes: 0

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. Votes: 0

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around. Votes: 0

I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music. Votes: 0

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day. Votes: 0

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. Votes: 0

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. Votes: 0

Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters. Votes: 0

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade. Votes: 0

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. Votes: 0

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. Votes: 0

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre. Votes: 0

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade. Votes: 0

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. Votes: 0

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. Votes: 0

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. Votes: 0

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade. Votes: 0

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. Votes: 0

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. Votes: 0

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. Votes: 0

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies. Votes: 0

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more. Votes: 0

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. Votes: 0

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. Votes: 0

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. Votes: 0

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade Votes: 0

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. Votes: 0

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade. Votes: 0

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. Votes: 0

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade. Votes: 0

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. Votes: 0

We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube. Votes: 0

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. Votes: 0

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan. Votes: 0

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs Votes: 0

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade. Votes: 0

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. Votes: 0

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way. Votes: 0

After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge. Votes: 0

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation. Votes: 0

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. Votes: 0

Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too. Votes: 0

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. Votes: 0

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time. Votes: 0

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot. Votes: 0

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament. Votes: 0

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade. Votes: 0

The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade. Votes: 0

I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car. Votes: 0

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. Votes: 0

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that. Votes: 0

Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad. Votes: 0

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization. Votes: 0

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. Votes: 0

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped. Votes: 0

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday. Votes: 0

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. Votes: 0

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. Votes: 0

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance. Votes: 0

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists. Votes: 0

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement. Votes: 0

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. Votes: 0

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now. Votes: 0

Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with. Votes: 0

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement. Votes: 0

I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one. Votes: 0

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. Votes: 0

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world. Votes: 0

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s. Votes: 0

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable. Votes: 0

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade. Votes: 0

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat. Votes: 0

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy. Votes: 0

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads. Votes: 0

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. Votes: 0

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job. Votes: 0

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester. Votes: 0

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city. Votes: 0

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. Votes: 0

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. Votes: 0

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. Votes: 0

High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome. Votes: 0

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft. Votes: 0

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom. Votes: 0

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade. Votes: 0

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. Votes: 0

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade. Votes: 0

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade. Votes: 0

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade. Votes: 0

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. Votes: 0

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? Votes: 0

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s. Votes: 0

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most. Votes: 0

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade Votes: 0

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile. Votes: 0

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that. Votes: 0

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. Votes: 0

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. Votes: 0

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade. Votes: 0

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed. Votes: 0

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. Votes: 0

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me. Votes: 0

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. Votes: 0

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community. Votes: 0

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. Votes: 0

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people Votes: 0

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. Votes: 0

After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself. Votes: 0

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live Votes: 0

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade. Votes: 0

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries. Votes: 0

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training. Votes: 0

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children. Votes: 0

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. Votes: 0

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded Votes: 0

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade. Votes: 0

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. Votes: 0

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. Votes: 0

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster. Votes: 0

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Votes: 0

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time. Votes: 0

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers. Votes: 0

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. Votes: 0

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians. Votes: 0

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable. Votes: 0

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. Votes: 0

In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution. Votes: 0

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Votes: 0

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! Votes: 0

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon. Votes: 0

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade. Votes: 0

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. Votes: 0

You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade. Votes: 0

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade. Votes: 0

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in. Votes: 0

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. Votes: 0

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game. Votes: 0

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace. Votes: 0

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago. Votes: 0

Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million. Votes: 0

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India. Votes: 0

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world. Votes: 0

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair. Votes: 0

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty. Votes: 0

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system. Votes: 0

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe. Votes: 0

Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11. Votes: 0

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40. Votes: 0

The creation of the mortgage bond market, a decade earlier, had extended Wall Street into a place it had never before been: the debts of ordinary Americans. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade. Votes: 0

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues. Votes: 0

I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. Votes: 0

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878. Votes: 0

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. Votes: 0

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. Votes: 0

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. Votes: 0

The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale. Votes: 0

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community. Votes: 0

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different. Votes: 0

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. Votes: 0

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Votes: 0

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't Votes: 0

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party. Votes: 0

When people query whether Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is real or not, my answer is always: Sweden has recognized the condition for a decade and has approximately 300,000 EHS people. Votes: 0

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. Votes: 0

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown." Votes: 0

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated. Votes: 0

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade. Votes: 0

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. Votes: 0

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade. Votes: 0

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands. Votes: 0

A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person. Votes: 0

The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling. Votes: 0

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place. Votes: 0

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since. Votes: 0

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now? Votes: 0

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans. Votes: 0

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel. Votes: 0

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship. Votes: 0

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. Votes: 0

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. Votes: 0

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule." Votes: 0

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well. Votes: 0

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule. Votes: 0

I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish. Votes: 0

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. Votes: 0

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government Votes: 0

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life. Votes: 0

Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade. Votes: 0

For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day. Votes: 0

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality. Votes: 0

I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress. Votes: 0

Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb. Votes: 0

Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade Votes: 0

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade. Votes: 0

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life. Votes: 0

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe. Votes: 0

In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade. Votes: 0

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? Votes: 0

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half. Votes: 0

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories. Votes: 0

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants. Votes: 0

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. Votes: 0

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now. Votes: 0

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left. Votes: 0

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about. Votes: 0

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful. Votes: 0

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic. Votes: 0

Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade. Votes: 0

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. Votes: 0

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking. Votes: 0

The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate. Votes: 0

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience. Votes: 0

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age Votes: 0

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.' Votes: 0

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree. Votes: 0

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick. Votes: 0

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? Votes: 0

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country. Votes: 0

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade! Votes: 0

The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it. Votes: 0

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade. Votes: 0

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine. Votes: 0

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that. Votes: 0

It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor. Votes: 0

Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each! Votes: 0

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds. Votes: 0

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe. Votes: 0

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. Votes: 0

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. Votes: 0

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations. Votes: 0

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. Votes: 0

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it. Votes: 0

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in. Votes: 0

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Votes: 0

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved. Votes: 0

My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel. Votes: 0

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle. Votes: 0

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth. Votes: 0

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell. Votes: 0

I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all. Votes: 0

Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago. Votes: 0

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants. Votes: 0

Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid. Votes: 0

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all. Votes: 0

This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years. Votes: 0

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular. Votes: 0

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other. Votes: 0

It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off. Votes: 0

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power. Votes: 0

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade, Votes: 0

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile. Votes: 0

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago. Votes: 0

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. Votes: 0

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair] Votes: 0

Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem. Votes: 0

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus. Votes: 0

Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter. Votes: 0

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime. Votes: 0

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. Votes: 0

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade. Votes: 0

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night? Votes: 0

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense. Votes: 0

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. Votes: 0

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on. Votes: 0

When I am up in Paris then the restaurant which has remained my favourite for the past decade is Guy Savoy. The menu is huge, sophisticated and very creative but I keep to simple choices. Votes: 0

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light. Votes: 0

Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we'll build websites for the decade to come. Votes: 0

And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable. Votes: 0

According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first. Votes: 0

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70′s Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other. Votes: 0

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me. Votes: 0

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light Votes: 0

I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later. Votes: 0

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term. Votes: 0