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Forty Quotes

I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren’t somebody’s parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that’s a great places to raise kids - that’s basically code for there are no adults here who are not parents. I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential Picture Quote #1

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he’s been dead for forty years, he’s still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! Picture Quote #1

I’ve led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation Picture Quote #1

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, ‘Which of these things do I want to record?’ Picture Quote #1

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson’s misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers Picture Quote #1

...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well Picture Quote #1

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Today’s recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware Picture Quote #1

I’ve been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, ‘What’s the secret? Don’t get divorced!’ Picture Quote #1

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem Picture Quote #1

My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it Picture Quote #1

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Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work Picture Quote #1

I’m not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible Picture Quote #1

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn’t done in forty years Picture Quote #1

I’ve got an accountant who’s been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies Picture Quote #1

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened Picture Quote #1

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil Picture Quote #1

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The best years of a man’s life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon Picture Quote #1

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I’m sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match Picture Quote #1

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life Picture Quote #1

Something’s still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone’s heart. A conscience that’s seared Picture Quote #1

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder, I’m an over forty victim of fate Picture Quote #1

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker Picture Quote #1

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The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities Picture Quote #1

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn’t get a job Picture Quote #1

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent Picture Quote #1

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old Picture Quote #1

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn’t start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old Picture Quote #1

I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends Picture Quote #1

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I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren’t somebody’s parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that’s a great places to raise kids - that’s basically code for there are no adults here who are not parents. I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential. (Forty Quotes) Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he’s been dead for forty years, he’s still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! (Forty Quotes) I’ve led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. (Forty Quotes) I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, ‘Which of these things do I want to record?’ (Forty Quotes) It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson’s misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers. (Forty Quotes) ...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. (Forty Quotes) Today’s recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago (Forty Quotes) 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. (Forty Quotes) Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware. (Forty Quotes) I’ve been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, ‘What’s the secret? Don’t get divorced!’ (Forty Quotes) We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem. (Forty Quotes) My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. (Forty Quotes) Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work (Forty Quotes) I’m not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible. (Forty Quotes) I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn’t done in forty years. (Forty Quotes) I’ve got an accountant who’s been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. (Forty Quotes) I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. (Forty Quotes) Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. (Forty Quotes) The best years of a man’s life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. (Forty Quotes) The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I’m sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match. (Forty Quotes) Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ... (Forty Quotes) Something’s still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone’s heart. A conscience that’s seared. (Forty Quotes) Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder, I’m an over forty victim of fate. (Forty Quotes) Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker. (Forty Quotes) The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities. (Forty Quotes) When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn’t get a job. (Forty Quotes) There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. (Forty Quotes) What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. (Forty Quotes) One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn’t start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old. (Forty Quotes) I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. (Forty Quotes)

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