Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
~By Will Friedle ~
Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
~By Larry Niven ~
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
~By Ken Thompson ~
I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.
~By Bob Paisley ~
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.
~By Jonathan Bennett ~
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
~By Jonathan Cain ~
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
~By Adrian Smith ~
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
~By Rosa Parks ~
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
~By Joan Blades ~
I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.
~By Peter Cushing ~
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
~By Torquato Tasso ~
I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
~By Dana Hill ~
What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.
~By Todd Barry ~
I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.
~By Robert McCloskey ~
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
~By Liam Neeson ~
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
~By Dave Reichert ~
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
~By Cynthia Ozick ~
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
~By Jane Alexander ~
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
~By Albert Ellis ~
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
~By Bob Filner ~
So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
~By Alton Brown ~
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
~By Gyorgy Ligeti ~
I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.
~By Rob Paulsen ~
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
~By Patti Smith ~
For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
~By Barney Ross ~
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
~By Leon Jaworski ~
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
~By Steven Curtis Chapman ~
Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
~By Lesley Gore ~
When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
~By Aaron Carter ~
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
~By Jim Harrison ~
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
~By William Petersen ~
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
~By Chet Atkins ~
That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.
~By Christo ~
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
~By George Michael ~
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
~By Fay Godwin ~
When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
~By Victor Garber ~
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
~By Robert Caro ~
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
~By Sue Grafton ~
We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
~By Alan Dundes ~
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
~By Debra Winger ~
For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
~By Fernando Alonso ~
The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.
~By Jerry Moss ~
I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.
~By Tom Kite ~
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
~By Joan Rivers ~
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
~By David Ortiz ~
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
~By Curtis Sliwa ~
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
~By Willa Ford ~
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
~By Donal Logue ~
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years.
~By Ethan Suplee ~
Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.
~By Justin Bieber ~
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
~By Scott Cook ~
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
~By Joshua Slocum ~
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
~By Roberta Williams ~
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
~By Jack Klugman ~
The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
~By Buck Owens ~
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
~By Walter Salles ~
The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.
~By Jeff Healey ~
We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
~By Dennis Ross ~
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
~By Carl Stokes ~
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
~By William Howard Taft ~
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
~By Janet Jackson ~
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
~By Dave Lombardo ~
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
~By Mary Ann Mobley ~
I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
~By Matthew Lesko ~
You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.
~By Ray Combs ~
I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.
~By Rob Lowe ~
There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border.
~By Alvin Williams ~
Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.
~By John Spratt ~
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
~By Leon Askin ~
I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
~By Fritz Hollings ~
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
~By Michael Crichton ~
I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
~By Gyorgy Legeti ~
I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
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