Years Ago Quotes - Page 28

• Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

  Jandy Nelson

  Garden, Years, Sky

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.80, Penguin

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• I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Talking, Years, Two

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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• I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.

  Donald Miller

  Distance, Believe, Years

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago

  Hilary Swank

  Years, Beverly Hills, Remember

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• Sarah Palin has admitted she tried marijuana several years ago, but she did not like it. She said it distorted her perceptions, impaired her thinking, and she's hoping that the effects will eventually wear off.

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Thinking, Years

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• I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Girl, Years, People

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Aug 08, 2012

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• I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

  Maya Angelou

  Mistake, Years, Forgiving

  "The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children". Book by Phil Parham and Amy Parham, September 1, 2011.

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• Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

  Martin Seligman

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  Kanye West

  Party, Rome, Years

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then

  Ed Seykota

  Years, Five, Ten

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• Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Fall, Years, Magic

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Standards Set

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• A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Couple, Book, Years

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• Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.

  Jude Wanniski

  Years, Ideas, Roots

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• I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Country, Years, Different

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• Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.

  Al Davis

  Years, People, Agents

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• I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

  Jennifer Ellison

  Years, Fad Diets, Made

  "Jennifer Ellison: My ex told me I was ugly and fat.. but look at me now! - Exclusive pictures". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2009.

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• Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.

  Ari Shavit

  Unique, Hands, Years

  Ari Shavit (2013). “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

  Antony Hewish

  Christian, Men, Years

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• For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

  Grace Coddington

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

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• Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

  Paul Dourish

  Years, Fifty, Computer

  Paul Dourish (2004). “Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction”, p.1, MIT Press

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• God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.

  Andrew Peterson

  Song, Writing, Mean

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