Years Quotes
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The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.
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When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.
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That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.
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Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.
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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
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I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
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If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.
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My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.
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You wake up one day and realize, 'Now, I'm a veteran.' You just wake up one day, and you're like, 'I'm 35, and I've been doing this now for 13 years.'
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I died last night. Seventy years too young.
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I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
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You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
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I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.
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The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
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My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
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There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.
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So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
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For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
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The '70's came and went already.
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"Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.
