Decades Quotes

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.