Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 16

• Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

  Nick Mancuso

  Sadness, Home, Long

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• Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse

  Angus Young

  Mean, Long, Room Service

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• A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.

  Quint Studer

  Long, People, Forever

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• It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

  Nic Sheff

  Long, Car, Lost

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Father, Issues, Long

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• A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

  MC Hammer

  Song, Commitment, Thinking

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• All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

  Timothy Findley

  Dark, Long Ago, Nurse

  Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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• I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

  John Grisham

  Writing, Long, Fiction

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• People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

  Laurie Colwin

  Two, Long, People

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• If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

  Mike Myers

  Should Have, Careers, Long

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

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• A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

  Hayden Christensen

  Country, Eight, Years

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• I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

  Fred Durst

  Long, Predicting The Future, Long Time

  "Fred Durst Digs Wes Borland's New Band But Still Wants To Get Back To Bizkit" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Race

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• I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Long, Exciting, Gave Up

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• I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

  Andrew Stanton

  Book, Long, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• [Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.

  Chamillionaire

  Years, Uprising, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

  John Updike

  Time, Long, Figures

  John Updike (2003). “Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest”

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• I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

  Bill Walton

  Get Well, Health, Long

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• A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life, Wall, Eye

  "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson, 1998.

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• Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Long, People

  "Song: 'Cocaine Decisions'". 1983.

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• I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

  Daniel Craig

  Long, Worry, Long Time

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• I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago. I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Trust, Bad Ass, Usa

  "Gowdy: Why Does the Media Not Care About Benghazi?". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2014.

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