William Adams Quotes
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss -
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath -
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 -
'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
M.I.A.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron -
I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
Mackenzie Foy -
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith -
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J. B. Priestley -
Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
Viggo Mortensen
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
Edgardo Osorio -
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
Walter Jon Williams -
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Sam Mendes -
We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
Pat Boone -
I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
Irina Shayk
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
Patricia Richardson -
My music is a luxury.
Lana Del Rey -
People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Maceo Parker -
Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy.
Jack Straw -
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
J. Frank Dobie -
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
William Adams The Black Eyed Peas