Years Quotes - Page 32

• I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

  Bart Cummings

  Sports, Long, Bored

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• I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Past, Dawn

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon as you say your dreams aloud, many people will come to your side and help guide your journey in the right direction. During my 30 year journey with my disease I have discovered that you will always be surrounded by help, support and light if you stay positive in spite of hardships.

  Karni Liddell

  Sports, Dream, Crazy

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• I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Feelings, Stills

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• She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.

  Gough Whitlam

  Love, Children, People

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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Love, Children, Fall

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Monday, Lying

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• Life is short. I'm years old. I've got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Funny, Life, Two

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• Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, Average, Car

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• Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

  Marcel Achard

  Funny, Women, Passion

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• With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero and may even be negative.

  William Happer

  Zero, Water, May

  "Non-Climate Scientist ‘Climate Scientist’ Sets the Record Straight" by Bill Chameides, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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• About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

  William Happer

  Levels, Fifty, Energy

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• We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

  Phil Jones

  Data, Trying, Energy

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• I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

  Keith Briffa

  Nice, Simple, Reality

  "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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• The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon.

  Peter Lesley

  Oil, Twenties, Energy

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• Everything will be solar in 30 years.

  Ralph Nader

  Wind, Energy, Environment

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• Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Past, Average, Energy

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• In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society, I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.

  Frederick Seitz

  Community, President, Peer Review

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• ...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.

  David Cameron

  Country, Carbon Emissions, House

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• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Data, Organization, People

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• The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

  Al Gore

  Energy, Records, Lasts

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• The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.

  Fred Singer

  Energy, Climate, Roles

  Fred Singer, Fred S. Singer, Dennis Avery (2006). “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.

  Carl Sagan

  Average, Atmosphere, Energy

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• ...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

  Al Gore

  Iowa, Weather, Broken

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• Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Inspirational, Funny, Long

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