#period

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean. ↗

— James Franco

#art #because #bought #commercial #commercial work

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. ↗

— Barney Frank

#april #both #bush #bush administration #created

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#average people #bailouts #billionaires #crisis #during

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#desperate #had #i #longest #often

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#early #getting #having #into #lots

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#effectiveness #fifteen #generation #lasts #only

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. ↗

— Boy George

#around #because #been #broke #club

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth