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Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record. -- Michael W. Smith
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. -- Laura Harring
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. -- Christopher Hitchens
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice. -- Kanye West
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. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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. -- Paris Hilton
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. -- Fred Brooks
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. -- Rose George
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. -- Matt McGorry
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. -- Kevin Rudd
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. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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. -- Larry Craig
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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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. -- Joyce Meyer
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. -- George W. Bush
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. -- Greg Anderson
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. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Steve Jobs
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. -- Yehuda Berg
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. -- Steve Jobs
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. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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. -- Heston Blumenthal
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! -- David Agus
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! -- Betty White
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. -- Greg Iles
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. -- Joel Edgerton
The nineties, ecstatic decade! -- Zadie Smith
The nineties, ecstatic decade!" -- Zadie Smith
We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time. -- Bill Gates
I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments. -- Jeff Bezos
This mission was the project of a decade's work. -- Philippe Perrin
I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves. -- Robert Charles Wilson
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade. -- Tom Peters
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white. -- Danny Boyle
I was eating beans by candle light for a decade. -- Eric Andre
A century is about events. A decade is about people. -- George Friedman
It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. -- Fiona Shaw
The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative. -- Viggo Mortensen
There has been one defining production for me in each decade. -- Stephen Daldry
Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after. -- Joe Biden
I've been living out of a suitcase for over a decade. -- Nikki Glaser
I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade -- Marc Newson
I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life. -- Matthew Rhys
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade -- James Hansen
I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade. -- Ron Paul
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer. -- Patti LaBelle
No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present. -- Don Hertzfeldt
Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally. -- Erica Schroeder
A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody. -- Liza Weil
In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point. -- Edwin Newman
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade. -- Constance Baker Motley
I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade. -- Nancy Grace
If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing, -- John Barnes
I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade. -- Andy Grove
To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup. -- Sam Altman
Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course. -- Joseph J. Romm
We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade. -- Eric Maisel
I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade. -- Paul Oakenfold
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. -- Annette Funicello
Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around. -- Gerry Beckley
I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music. -- Vinnie Vincent
The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day. -- John F. Kennedy
It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. -- Paul Johnson
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters. -- Emma Cameron
Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade. -- Craig Reucassel
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. -- Paul Samuelson
In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. -- Peter Mandelson
Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre. -- Gore Vidal
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade. -- Charles Stross
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. -- Eric Allin Cornell
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. -- Thomas Pynchon
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. -- Timothy White
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade. -- Edward Teller
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. -- Susan B. Anthony
The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. -- Sara Sheridan
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. -- David Brin
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies. -- Sue Johanson
Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more. -- Scott Cunningham
I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. -- Dana Plato
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. -- Byron Katie
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. -- Douglas J. Feith
Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade -- John McAfee
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. -- Tom Perrotta
I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade. -- Pat Riley
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. -- Craig Venter
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade. -- Warren Zevon
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. -- Douglas J. Feith
We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube. -- Philippe Kahn
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. -- David Price
I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan. -- Steve Garvey
Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs -- Kyle Bass
Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade. -- Cynthia Tucker
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. -- Donna Tartt
I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way. -- Tom Hiddleston
After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge. -- Oliver Kahn
He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation. -- Thomm Quackenbush
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. -- Charlie Sheen
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too. -- David Harsanyi
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. -- Noah Feldman
I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot. -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade. -- Charles Durning
The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade. -- Steve Jobs
I've been trying to start a garage band for over a decade now, but father won't move his car. -- Jarod Kintz
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. -- Fiona Shaw
The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that. -- Narendra Modi
Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad. -- Kurt Andersen
We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization. -- Ottmar Edenhofer
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. -- Chris Hardwick
It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped. -- Tony Abbott
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday. -- Amity Shlaes
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. -- Jerry Saltz
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. -- John Oates

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