Years Quotes
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They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.
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Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding.
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There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.
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Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.
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Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
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After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.
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I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.
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When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.
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I told everyone that I was going to be a pro wrestler ever since I was 10 years old, and now I can show them that I did it.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.
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I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.
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I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
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In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.
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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
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I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.
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For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.
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All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.
