Quotes about years
years mad guy
I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million. Eric Davis
years poverty aids
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid. Emmanuel Jal
years psychological torture
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. Emmanuelle Beart
years parent hollywood
When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. Emma Stone
years being-a-woman appearance
My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman. Emma Thompson
years proud potters
I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter. Emma Watson
years proud potters
I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films. Emma Watson
years forever way
If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever. John McPhee
years loses felt
I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose. John McEnroe
years people four
People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four. John Mellencamp
years records betrayed
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to. John Mellencamp
years government tribes
We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good. John McCain
years starting-over people
We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do. John McCain
years political world
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. John Jay Chapman
years tendencies walks
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. John James Audubon
years four negotiation
…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old… John Irving
years civilization perception
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings. John Irving
years stories months
Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is. John Irving
years ideas numbers
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. John Howe
years vocabulary messages
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped. John Humphrys
years achievement stories
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me. John Hawkes
years nuts people
I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts. Neal Schon
years people gone
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market. Neal Stephenson
years games self
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. Neal Stephenson
years squirrels six-year-olds
In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element. Neal Shusterman
years people democracy
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. Ralph Nader
years energy environment
Everything will be solar in 30 years. Ralph Nader
years awards discipline
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests. Ralph Allen
years important treats
I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love. Ralph Bakshi
years two doctors
As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor. Rafael Benitez
years publicity shy
I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity. Raf Simons
years numbers people
In fact, even in that store Draeger's they had 348 different kinds of jam actually in the jam aisle. And what we found over about, say, 10 years of research is that as the number of choices actually increase people are less likely to make a choice and sometimes they do this even when it's really bad for them. Sheena Iyengar
years decision answers
So for decisions about happiness you essentially need at least both and probably even more than that, you probably also need to do analysis that doesn't involve yourself to get at the answer of what will make you happy in 10 years. Sheena Iyengar