Quotes about year
years careers dancing
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. Jennifer Lopez
years skills people
Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence. Jeffrey Pfeffer
years effort heartless
All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response. Jeffrey Sachs
years goal magic
My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.
years long world
In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.
years guy kevin
All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work. Jeff Fahey
years games people
These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well. ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship. Jeff Flake
years television lasts
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. Jeff Daniels
years mad stuff
The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more. Jeff Foxworthy
years airports people
All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.
years careers long
Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this.
years research twenties
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years. Jean M. Auel
years people woven
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. Jean Giraudoux
years fifty able
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
years giving bills
The volatile natural gas market has affected us all, and we are giving our customers an option to lock in their electricity price for the entire year. This will allow them to anticipate their electricity bills and budget accordingly throughout 2006. Jim Burke
years australia innovation
The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends. Jim Breyer
years age firsts
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. James Buchan
years months helping
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup. James C. Collins
years done earth
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. James A. Michener
years people lobster
I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years James A. Baldwin
years half vomiting
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
years play people
We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved. Jacques Yves Cousteau
years ideas decision
We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate. Jada Pinkett Smith
years together would-be
When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.
years acting six
I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally. Jacqueline Emerson
years air miles
In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air. Jackie Stewart
years chance drivers
From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.
years ucla going-away
I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
years america people
What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
years glad behinds
I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us Jackson Browne
years fifteen born
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
years film seven
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own. Jack Palance
years half firsts
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. Jack Vance