Harold Coffin Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone -
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Barry Eichengreen -
I have been surfing since I was six years old.
Yigal Azrouël -
I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
Rachel McAdams -
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman -
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope -
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
A. J. Cook -
The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
Zhang Zhidong
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White -
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath -
Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
Xavier Becerra -
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick -
I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.
Kasey Chambers -
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London -
While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
Hans Rosling -
For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
Gary Locke -
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin