#forty years

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. ↗

— Mike Pence

#big government #congress #forty #forty years #fund

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars! ↗

— David Prowse

#around #better #fact #first #forty

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#exaggerated #forty #forty years #human #human life

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#first #forty #forty years #give #life

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#been #clear #fact #far #far less

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#been #focus #forty #forty years #funny

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here! ↗

— Errol Morris

#ago #country #damn #died #done