With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.
~By Marc Wallice ~
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
~By Bill Pascrell ~
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~By John Clayton ~
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.
~By Mike Royko ~
It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
~By Diana Krall ~
We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.
~By Alan Vega ~
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
~By Geezer Butler ~
Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.
~By Leonard Rose ~
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
~By Cy Coleman ~
Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.
~By Ronnie Hawkins ~
I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.
~By Mick Ralphs ~
Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead.
~By Jon Carroll ~
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
~By Garth Ennis ~
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
~By Kate Smith ~
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.
~By John Foster ~
All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.
~By Juan Cole ~
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.
~By John Hewson ~
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
~By Isaac Hanson ~
I've spent several years now with my head down.
~By Stephan Jenkins ~
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
~By Michael Stipe ~
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
~By Casey Stengel ~
This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
~By Greta Garbo ~
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
~By Lawrence Taylor ~
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
~By Torquato Tasso ~
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
~By Samantha Bee ~
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.
~By Andy Williams ~
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
~By Allan Sloan ~
Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.
~By Tony Visconti ~
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
~By Brian Eno ~
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
~By Michael Medved ~
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.
~By Mike Johanns ~
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
~By Andie MacDowell ~
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
~By John Buchan ~
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
~By King George V ~
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.
~By Guy Clark ~
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
~By Elia Kazan ~
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
~By Carl Jung ~
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
~By Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
~By Larry Elder ~
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
~By Howie Carr ~
They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.
~By Michael McKean ~
Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."
~By Erma Bombeck ~
For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
~By Wolfgang Hildesheimer ~
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
~By Douglass North ~
Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.
~By Persis Khambatta ~
Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.
~By Star Jones ~
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
~By Bobby Knight ~
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!
~By Vinnie Vincent ~
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
~By Teri Garr ~
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
~By Sting ~
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
~By Uri Geller ~
The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
~By Jim Doyle ~
Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
~By Shel Silverstein ~
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.
~By Jami Gertz ~
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
~By Bryan Singer ~
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 ~
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
~By Werner Herzog ~
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
~By Jim Rogers ~
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 ~
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
~By Felix Bloch ~
After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.
~By Gwen Verdon ~
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 feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
~By Judith Light ~
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.
~By Marc Maron ~
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
~By Steve Waugh ~
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
~By Nick Lampson ~
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
~By Anders Fogh Rasmussen ~
In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
~By Sissy Spacek ~
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