Quotes with thousand-year

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  • Ben Shapiro 2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ben Lovett A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Louis Nizer A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
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  • John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Philip Roth A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ben Folds A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Mayer A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Napoleon A picture is worth a thousand words.
    Original: Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Claude D. Pepper A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Lord George Byron A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William E. Vaughan A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Gates About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
    Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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