Years Quotes
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.
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I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
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What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now.
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
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In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
