Years Ago Quotes - Page 31

• [Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.

  Lionel Tiger

  Inspirational, Past, Years

  Lionel Tiger (2017). “The Pursuit of Pleasure”, p.33, Routledge

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• A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Heart, Doctors

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• Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

  George V

  Government, Years, Today

  1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.

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• Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

  Maximilian Schell

  Years, Style, Aggressive

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• The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency...store a year's supply...that might keep us form starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Talking, Years, Great Day

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• Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

  Brad Gilbert

  Years, Guy, Twenties

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• More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thank You, Years, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Years, Two

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Ricky Hatton would knock Khan out. 5 years ago or now.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Years, Fighter

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• The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Reality

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Phones, Years, Everyday

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• I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

  Matt Lucas

  Couple, Nice, Party

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• Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

  Ted Cruz

  Dad, Teenager, Years

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• The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

  Jane Lindskold

  Horse, Clever, Animal

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• I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Years, Feet

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• Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

  Richard Leakey

  Airplane, Years, Twelve

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• Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, British, Airbus

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• It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Years, Alive

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• The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

  Kendrick Meek

  Years, People, Justice

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• However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

  Gerard Arpey

  Years, Aggravation, Decision

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• Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea’s goal for many years. I had in my hands a 22-year-old goalkeeper I thought could be in Chelsea’s goals for years and years and years and this situation is quite similar.

  Jose Mourinho

  Hands, Years, Giving

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