Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
Jack Ma -
Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar -
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 -
I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang -
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
Larry Hagman
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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 -
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven -
Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
Lamar Hunt -
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 -
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
Dan Hicks -
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
Larry J. Sabato -
'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. -
Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
Patrick Marber -
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader
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Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.
Michael Malone -
In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
Verne Troyer -
I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
Nancy Pelosi -
I like struggle.
Hal Sparks -
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
Sun Ra -
The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
Zbigniew Brzezinski