Quotes with years-on

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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Ben Barnes When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bob Harper When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Camilla Belle When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Bill Condon When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Maris When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bill Walton When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bobby Locke When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
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  • Callie Khouri When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Abdul Kalam Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Plautus Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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