Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary.

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

Even your favorite celebrities go through tough periods and have heartbreak. They must empower themselves with healthy choices, as do you!

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

I was horrified to find out that a startling percentage of women, even in Bengaluru, do not go out or wash their hair during their periods.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

High-intensity training works well for cricket because we spend long periods waiting around and then have to perform sudden sprints or dives.

I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.

As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

I think Nexus is one of the favorite periods of my career, and I think we had a lot of success, and I think people responded to it really well.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

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