William Adams Quotes
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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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.
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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.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
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The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
