Years Ago Quotes - Page 26

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

Peter Bondra

Couple, Team, Winning

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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

Anna Lindh

Couple, Fighting, Years

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The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

Michael Merzenich

Reading, Average, Years

"Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

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Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

Ronnie Spector

Years, Groups, Shame

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Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

Phil Plait

Bad Day, Years, Dinosaurs

"How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.

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I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

Cathy Freeman

Senior, Running, Team

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

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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

Laura Hillenbrand

Horse, Writing, Years

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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

Vivian Stanshall

Apology, Years, Two

"Song: 'Mr. Apollo'". 1969.

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Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

Ogden Nash

Dog, Time, Betrayal

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I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Greta Scacchi

Stay Strong, Hiking, Years

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Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

Ken Olsen

Teamwork, Years, Accepted

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Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Thinking, Years, People

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I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

Edward Mills Purcell

Eye, Winter, Years

"Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.

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In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

Pia Zadora

Husband, Past, Years

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River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

Robert Hunter

Song, Sweet, Home

Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

Jackie Collins

Writing, Character, Years

"Jackie Collins blasts boring young stars". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2004.

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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Robert Teeter

Government, Years, Giving

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I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

John Wanamaker

Motivational, Years, Overcoming

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God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

Charles Stanley

Wisdom, Jesus, Son

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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.

Ellen Terry

Hard Work, Years, Imagination

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Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

Bryan Appleyard

Years, Internet, Forecasts

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Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

Tom Kite

Sports, Children, Kids

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Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

Joan Benoit

Running, Drinking, Coffee

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Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.

Richard Branson

Thinking, Average, Years

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This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

Ralph W. Moss

Cancer, Years, Able

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