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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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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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
