This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars. ~By Paul Ryan ~
You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for. ~By Josef Albers ~
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. ~By Stephen Cambone ~
Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust. ~By Jonathan Brown ~
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. ~By Paul Lynde ~
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 ~
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then. ~By Diana Ross ~
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. ~By Howard Gardner ~
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ~By David R. Brower ~
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years. ~By Vince McMahon ~
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day. ~By Stephen Fry ~
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ~By Willa Cather ~
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ~By James Loeb ~
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. ~By Amar Bose ~
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. ~By Scott Cook ~
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. ~By Alex Campbell ~
Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years. ~By John M. McHugh ~
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. ~By Alec Baldwin ~
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky. ~By Ian Hart ~
Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition. ~By Roy Romer ~
The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. ~By Robert Sternberg ~
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability. ~By Earl Blumenauer ~
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good. ~By Teri Garr ~
Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards. ~By Robert Shea ~
I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films. ~By Paul Hogan ~
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. ~By Diane Duane ~
I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew. ~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due. ~By Clea Duvall ~
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. ~By Mordecai Richler ~
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A. ~By Tom Hayden ~
Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire. ~By Leonard Rose ~
By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life. ~By Michael Bergin ~
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album. ~By Bruce Cockburn ~
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. ~By Jimmy Smith ~
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 ~
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market. ~By Barry Corbin ~
My father was gone when I was three years old. ~By Marc Wallice ~
My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his. ~By Thomas Keneally ~
As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance. ~By Stefan Edberg ~
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. ~By Robert Ballard ~
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else. ~By Wayne Coyne ~
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~By William Faulkner ~
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. ~By Linda M. Godwin ~
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home. ~By Jessica Lange ~
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. ~By Frank McCourt ~
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. ~By Will Steger ~
I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor. ~By Martha Stewart ~
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. ~By Thomas Wolfe ~
It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years. ~By Brenda Blethyn ~
I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll. ~By Eli Wallach ~
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 ~
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have. ~By Steve Ballmer ~
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. ~By Kathleen Turner ~
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ~By Eyvind Johnson ~
The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more. ~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. ~By Ed Wynn ~
I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago. ~By Rajendra Prasad ~
I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war. ~By Carol Bellamy ~
I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years. ~By David Guterson ~
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life. ~By John Polkinghorne ~
Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. ~By Lord Alfred Douglas ~
I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years. ~By Ashley Judd ~
Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15. ~By Gerard Arpey ~
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 ~
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. ~By Parker Stevenson ~
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago. ~By Robert Nelson ~
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. ~By John McCarthy ~
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect. ~By Jules Massenet ~
My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created. ~By Barack Obama ~
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. ~By Alan Keyes ~
It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore. ~By Andy Summers ~
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old. ~By Leif Garrett ~
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. ~By Placido Domingo ~
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ~By Haruki Murakami ~
The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location. ~By David Kay ~
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough. ~By Olivier Martinez ~
I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time. ~By Mireille Mathieu ~
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. ~By Mary Douglas ~
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. ~By Chaka Fattah ~
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. ~By Sara Paretsky ~
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ~By Wilfred Owen ~
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter? ~By Boris Becker ~
When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity. ~By James Taylor ~
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. ~By Ike Turner ~
Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years. ~By Herman Hesse ~
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon. ~By William Devane ~
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. ~By Edward Zwick ~
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. ~By Bill Griffith ~
I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it. ~By Jeanette MacDonald ~
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. ~By Michael Chertoff ~
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. ~By Betty Friedan ~
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. ~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. ~By Angela Merkel ~
So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years. ~By Steve Case ~
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. ~By Elinor Wylie ~
I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices. ~By Lacey Chabert ~
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