Years Ago Quotes - Page 39

• A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

  Denis Dutton

  Wall, Years, Bills

  "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

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• They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

  Mark Zandi

  Hair, Years, America

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• I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

  Channing Tatum

  Years, Two, Levels

  "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Light, Expression

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• My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

  Bill Walton

  Running, Pain, Life Changing

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!

  John Waters

  Couple, Years, Bags

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• A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Boston, Years, Guests

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

  Allen Tate

  Art, Mean, Years

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

  Molly Ivins

  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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• Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.

  Mark Burnett

  Book, Character, Journey

  "Burnett is reality TV survivor". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Years, Twenties, Today

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• If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.

  Troy Perry

  Gay, Years, Organization

  The Christian Century, 1996.

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• Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Couple, Writing, Next Week

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Years, Two

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

  Ernst Mach

  Years, Twenties, Impress

  Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Simple, Government

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• The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Doors, Years, People

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.

  Paul Davies

  Years, Alternatives, Earth

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• What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Years, Two

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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Meaningful, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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• I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  New York, Heterosexuality Is, Years

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.110, Crossing Press

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• A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Artist, Skeletons

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