Years Quotes
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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.
Herodotus
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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.
Josh Gad
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I died last night. Seventy years too young.
Colin Thompson
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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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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South America must have lain alongside Africa and formed a unified block which was split in two in the Cretaceous; the two parts must then have become increasingly separated over a period of millions of years like pieces of a cracked ice floe in water.
Alfred Wegener
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
Melvyn Bragg
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Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.
Wolfgang Laib
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You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
John Brunner
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One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
William Stanley Jevons
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I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.
Bernie Williams
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We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.
Wendy McElroy
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
Walter Besant
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Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.
Michael Parkinson
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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.
Red Smith
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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.
James Martineau
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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.
Michael Dirda
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Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
John Quinlan Terry
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
Richard MacDonald
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When I did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, 'Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,' it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.
Erin Foster
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I do not make secrets from my years, and probably it’s good. Since people give me much less than there really is.
Ornella Muti
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.
Neil Oliver
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.
Michael Ealy