Two Years Quotes - Page 19

• I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

  Nick Frost

  Jobs, Teenager, Israel

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• We should never finish a 20 year program in two year.

  Jack Ma

  Years, Two, Program

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• In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Views, Years

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• I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Football, Team, Past

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• With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Years, Two

  "A President All Alone". www.washingtonpost.com. March 26, 2007.

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• I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples.

  Jo Brand

  Light, Years, Two

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• You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

  Paul Auster

  Taken, Writing, Past

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.201, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

  Betty Dodson

  Successful, Years, Two

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jobs, New York, Years

  "Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 2, 2014.

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• I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Kids, School, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

  Jackson Guthy

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.

  Elena Tonra

  Song, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Years, Two, Dying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Summer, Jobs, Years

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don`t think she passed that test.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 19, 2016.

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• Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.

  Zhang Xin

  Husband, Years, Zuckerberg

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.

  Matt Damon

  Color, Years, Two

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• A lot of it is just waking up and putting one foot in front of the other and going where I just go, a natural progression. The other thing is I do have a lot of ideas. TV seems to be where it happens faster, quicker. You are trying to get a movie off the ground, and it's very difficult. One movie takes two years to make

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Years, Ideas, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Years, Two, Excited

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Vienna, when I was a year-and-a-half or two years-old. I remember it because I remember the little blue raincoat I used to wear, and how the buttons felt. I liked to walk on the street in front of our house when it was raining, and jump into all the puddles. That's weird, but that's my earliest memory.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Memories, Rain, Blue

  "Boris Kodjoe The ‘Addicted’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The reality is that Qaddafi has been trying to talk to us about his weapons system for years, and we ignored him. The Libyans even came to me about two years ago and offered me a chance to go through their facilities because they couldn't get anybody's attention here.

  Seymour Hersh

  Reality, Years, Two

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Two, Clouds

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.

  Susan Davis

  Years, Law, Two

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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