Decade Quotes

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

Long, Two, Write

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
Nancy Grace

Violent, Courtroom

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.
Jim Ryun

Fact, Social, Next

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.
Steve Case

Computers, Hard, Personal

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.
George Pataki

Change, Character, Creativity

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.
Jeffrey Sachs

Experience, Far, Criticism

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.
Matthew Lesko

Women, American, Cancer

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
John Hutton

Rather, Next, Looks

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
Stephen Daldry

Production, Defining

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.
Christine Baranski

Family, Women, God

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.
Geraldo Rivera

Live, Night, Again

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
Peter Mandelson

Space, India, Dramatic

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.
Carey Mulligan

Around, Walk, Mirror

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
Naomi Judd

God, Others, Times

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.
Valentino Garavani

Amazing, Revolution, Fashion

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!
Vivian Campbell

Rock, Justice, Humanity

And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
Julianna Baggott

Art, Poetry, After

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.
James Fallows

War, After, Public

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

Life, Success, Nothing

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.
Richard Leakey

Problem, Once, Used

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.
Steve Buyer

Faith, Strong, Nation

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.
Jean Reno

Simple, Past, Keep

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Jacob Lew

Since, Next, President

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
Frank Rich

Money, After, Between

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.
Frank Rich

Money, End, Off

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

Government, Between, Less

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
Robert Atkins

Diet, Single, Realize

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
David Eagleman

Time, Century, Remembered

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

Book, Problems, Write

As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
Donald Evans

Forget, Leader, Far

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