Years Quotes
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And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year with us. We learned so much working with him - just being able to spend time with him, the quality of his mind, the things he comes up with and says. I think Wes Anderson and I could go to dinner tonight and spend the whole dinner thinking and talking about things that Jim has said to us over the years.
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I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.
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We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.
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Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for non-smoking areas ten years ago.
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I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.
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I think that’s a mistake if Aaron Rodgers does not throw at Richard Sherman. Now, he doesn’t have to make it personal vendetta against him because I’m sure all year, all he’s heard is how he did not throw on Richard Sherman.
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If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.
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We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.
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After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.
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The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.
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Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.
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The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
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I studied in eight schools and did not get to be in a school for more than two years, as I was always requested to get out, even though I was not thrown out ever.
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I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.
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It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
