Years Quotes
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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
