Quotes with years

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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Cynthia Ozick After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Douglas Adams After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • George William Curtis Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Alija Izetbegovic All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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  • Carl Bernstein All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bel Powley All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909 - 1993)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Bert Lance All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Dedman American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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