Last Year Quotes - Page 16

• I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

  Alexander Haig

  School, Warrior, Years

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• When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

  Dwight Gooden

  Years, Giving, Fans

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• From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Years, Government

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103

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• One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

  Andrew Greeley

  Years, Yesterday, Lasts

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• He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Years, Disease, Lasts

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• I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

  Richard Rohr

  Teaching, Years, Lasts

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

  Arthur Blank

  Home, Years, People

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• I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

  Kristen Bell

  Jobs, Character, Years

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• I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

  Anne Carson

  Teacher, School, Years

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• Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.

  Linwood Barclay

  Stars, Book, Writing

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• Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

  Drew Curtis

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

  James Daly

  Business, Years, Lasts

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• Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

  Andrew Gross

  Crazy, Book, Hero

  Interview with Lisa Gardner, www.amazon.com. 2012.

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• I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Years, Play, Sound

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• Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Order, Years, Play

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• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Latin, Years, America

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• I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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• For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Years, Boxing, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

  Cecily Strong

  Integrity, Technology, Years

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• The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

  James Daly

  Business, Children, Years

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• I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

  Monique Coleman

  School, Kids, Night

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• You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

  Michael Fassbender

  Believe, Years, Car

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• The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

  Joe Jonas

  Dream, Years, Judging

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• I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Vacation, Years

  "The Guardian" interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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