Quotes with years-old

Quotes 561 till 580 of 1807.

  • Umberto Eco I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
    (2011)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Eddie Murphy I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
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  • Ann Veneman I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Buck Owens I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Aravind Adiga I was looking for the key for years. But the door was always open.
    The White Tiger (2008) 216
    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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  • Bubba Watson I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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