Years Ago Quotes - Page 29

• None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Years, House, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Years, West

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• Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Growing Up, Successful

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• I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

  Karen Allen

  Eight, Years, Smoking

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• I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

  Shelley Berman

  Marijuana, Years, Smoking

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• When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Broken Heart, Liars

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

  Betty Friedan

  Two, Years, World

  "Work and life: The search for balance" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2001.

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• Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

  John Foster Dulles

  Years, Decision, Made

  Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)

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• Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  War, Thinking, Years

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

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• The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Wall, Real

  "Elizabeth Warren Blasts Wall Street, Scott Brown In First Massachusetts Senate Debate" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

  George Washington

  Father, Years, Four

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• Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

  Henny Youngman

  Sarcastic, Years, Two

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• It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

  John Humphrys

  Vocabulary, Years, Sms

  "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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• Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you that the experience of humanism is that — as Terence expressed it — “Nothing human is alien to me”; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and I am the saint. I am the child and I am the adult. I am the man who lived a hundred thousand years ago and I am the man who, provided we don't destroy the human race, will live hundred thousand years from now.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Men, Years

  "On Being Human".

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• One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.

  Roger Federer

  Winning, Player, Years

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• I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

  Roger Federer

  Winning, Years, Parent

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• The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Moving, Destiny

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will guarantee Israel security. At the same time, we will do our utmost to defend and protect Israel, for unless Israel is strong and secure, then peace will always be beyond our grasp. We were with Israel at the beginning, 41 years ago. We are with Israel today. And we will be with Israel in the future. No one should doubt this basic committment.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Israel, Years

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• Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, Office, President

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• So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

  Poul Anderson

  Technology, Years, Way

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• I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

  Bobby Fischer

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

  Mike Tyson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Years

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• The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.

  Dr. John

  Years, Events, Determined

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• Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

  Eric Carle

  Stars, Children, Artist

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• I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Years, Desire, Might

  "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

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