Five Years Quotes - Page 38

• We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Years, Challenges, Important

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Twenties, Different

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• Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

  Pratibha Patil

  Years, Feelings, President

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• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  M. Ward

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

  Antony Beevor

  Mother, Jobs, Writing

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• Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

  Arthur Bryant

  Real, Years, Berlin

  Sir Arthur Bryant, Adolf Hitler (1940). “Unfinished victory”

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• Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

  Billy Boyd

  Thinking, Years, Want

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• I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Years, Giving

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Years, Directors, Development

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• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Next Week, Years

  Interview with Dan Warburton, www.paristransatlantic.com. July 08, 1995.

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• Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

  Lance Burton

  Years, Volunteer, Magic

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• We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Lasts, Economy

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• It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

  Chris Colfer

  Kids, Years, Add

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2010

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• I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

  David Cook

  Years, Cities, Kansas City

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• You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

  Emilia Clarke

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Alfie Allen & Emilia Clarke chat 'Game Of Thrones'". www.digitalspy.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

  George Clinton

  Rip, Thinking, Years

  "George Clinton: 'Even now the music scares us sometimes' - a classic interview from the vaults". NME Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

  Bill Condon

  Couple, Years, Two

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• I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

  Aravind Adiga

  New York, Years, Psychics

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• Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Years, Long, Feeling Down

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• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  Andy Gibb

  Australia, Years, England

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• Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.

  Billy Gardell

  Fun, Hero, Years

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• I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

  Erin Gray

  Thinking, Years, Growth

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• I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Song, Father, Years

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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