Years Ago Quotes - Page 36

• We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.

  Steven Dietz

  Art, Years, Play

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• I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?

  Molly Ivins

  Inspiring, Mean, College

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• Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.

  Benjamin Cheever

  Dog, Years, Actors

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• But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Texas, Years

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Years, America

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• We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.174

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• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement, Giving Up, Communication

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

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• Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Light, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Florida, Years

  The Cocoanuts (motion picture) (1929). Screenplay by George S. Kaufman.

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• What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Years, Mystical Experiences, Today

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library

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• I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.

  Todd Barry

  Thinking, Years, Done

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• I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

  Pete Townshend

  Drama, Artist, Thinking

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• Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Two, Years, Needs

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• Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono". Book by David Sheff, G. Barry Golson, St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 112-113, 2000.

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• Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.

  Dennis Muren

  Years, People, Today

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• No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar to the one that's being fought today. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to better understand what American and Coalition forces are up against in one of history's most tribal and troubled regions.

  Vince Flynn

  War, Reading, Book

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• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  Max Cleland

  Running, Years, White

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• You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

  Jacques Pepin

  Years, Choices, Technique

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• I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, America, Years

  "Dean: Country needs serious discussion about race". www.cnn.com. November 6, 2003.

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• My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Years, President, United States

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• I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Years

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• To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder
  and doubt and guess.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Years, Doubt

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

  Eddie Martinez

  Past, Years, Trying

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• I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

  Robert Sheckley

  Two, Russia, Years

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• The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!

  John Petrucci

  Art, Couple, Grateful

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