Defining Decade Quotes

#1. [T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

Pitigrilli

#2. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.

Meg Jay

#3. I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

Betty Friedan

#4. What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

James Taylor

#5. We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities, and the consequences of this simple, devastating realization is the defining feature of American life at the end of this low, dishonest decade.

Christopher L. Hayes

#6. The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

George Amos Dorsey

#7. So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Richard Branson

#8. A drone isn't any different than a bomb; it's not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not. It's just the weapons platform.

Tim Kaine

#9. I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

Magic Johnson

#10. Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein

Kate Larkinson

#11. Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better

Meg Jay

#12. Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

Amy Grant

#13. We never went back to normal after that fight.

R.J. Lewis

#14. I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

Martin McGuinness

#15. There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

Stephen Daldry