Last Year Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

  LeBron James

  Years, Finals, Lasts

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• Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.

  Toby Jones

  Couple, Coffee, Men

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Real, Home

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• I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

  Carl Paladino

  Son, Years, Lasts

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• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  Oscar Pistorius

  New York, Rain, Years

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• It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Sports, Running, Years

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• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  Gail Simmons

  Running, Years, Two

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• Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Years, Games, Germany

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 2004.

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• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  Kate Voegele

  Moving, Artist, Impact

  "Kate Voegele 'went on journey for new LP'" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. April 27, 2011.

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• Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

  Ed Markey

  Years, Doe, Lasts

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

  Peter Welch

  Law, Ideas, Years

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• I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!

  Theo Walcott

  Dad, Growing Up, Team

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• The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

  Cliff Robertson

  Winning, Years, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

  Lorde

  Rap, Thinking, Years

  "Discovery: Lorde". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8  months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Years, Europe, Progress

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• I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

  Peyton Manning

  Years, Stronger, Balls

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• I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

  Pat Bowlen

  Years, Expectations, Lasts

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• I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

  Patricia Velasquez

  New York, Years, Lasts

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• Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

  John Denham

  Years, Age, Lasts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 6-9, The Sophy, A Tragedy, 1922.

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• Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Smartphones, Years

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• But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

  Francois Rabelais

  Years, Snow, Lasts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 723, Pantagruel (1532), Chapter XIV, 1922.

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• Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Years, Agriculture, Target

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• Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.

  Ricky Ponting

  Years, Calendars, Lasts

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• As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm not sure anyone really knows the extent of the click fraud problem.

  Flint McGlaughlin

  Years, Challenges, Research Study

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