Quotes with years-on

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  • Will Durant Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Barry McGuire So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Aaron Neville So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • Sidney Smith So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
    Sidney Smith
    English poet (1771 - 1845)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • James Thurber Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bob Lilly Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Ben Shahn Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Albert J. Nock Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Boman Irani Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
    Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Allen Klein Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Beck Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carlo Rubbia Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Burt Rutan Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Billy Gardell Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Stately Pines, But few more years around the promontory Your chant will meet the thunders of the sea.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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