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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
Carl Sagan
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Astronomer
Community
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Rich
Surroundings
Years Ago
Almost Nothing
Animals
Develop
Sexual
Hunt
Million
Million Years
Plain
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart
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Philosopher
Instant
Thousand
Thousand Years
Tomorrow
Years
Years Ago
Yesterday
Itself
Exists
Hence
Present
Nor
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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
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Former President Of Poland
American President
Poland
President
Ten
United States
Years
Years Ago
Good Shape
Shape
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Visit
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I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!
Paul Prudhomme
/
Chef
Broke
Country
Different
Different Kinds
Restaurants
Traveled
Years
Years Ago
Foods
Opened
Restaurant
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When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
John Strachan
/
Greater
Late
Majesty
Spiritual
Wilderness
Years Ago
Appointed
Gospel
Bishop
Diffuse
Extensive
Portion
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I created my own little online series, 'Love, Life & Music,' years ago, before reality TV got poppin'. I wanted my fans to see that I wasn't just here sitting on my hands. I'm out here every day, grinding and working.
Letoya Luckett
/
Singer
Love Life
Online
Reality Tv
Series
Sitting
Years Ago
Life Love Music
Grinding
Out Here
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Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
Jerry Pournelle
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Fiction Writer
Clubs
Coffee
Reading
Writing
Years Ago
Rules
Your People Nothing
Finish
Join
Manuscript
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It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.
Peter Hain
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British Politician
Fascinating
Thirty
Years Ago
World Me Looking
Indeed
Jeremy
Pictures
Twenty
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Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.
Drew Carey
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Actor
Abraham
Fit
Labels
Libertarian
Modern
Republican
Teddy
Years
Years Ago
Essentially
Republicans
Richard
Label
Lincoln
Nixon
Reagan
Richard Nixon
Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
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What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.
David Baltimore
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Biologist
Answers
Evident
Importance
Numbers
Years
Years Ago
Number
Gene
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Hannes Alfven
/
Engineer
Doubt
Infinite
Myth
Rational
Thousand
Universe
Years Ago
Attempts
Billion
Existed
Indefinitely
Twenty
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It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.
John Woo
/
Film Director
Movie
China
Easy
Film
Office
Red
Said
Simple
Wanted
Years
Years Ago
Pretty
Cliff
Few
Walked
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I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
Richard Rogers
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Architect
Art
Architecture
Believe
Geography
School
Years Ago
Art History Science
Science History Art
Fought
Schools
Strongly
Talked
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At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.
Peter Jurasik
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Actor
Graduation
Four
Numbers
Ordination
Priesthood
Reunion
Years
Years Ago
Several
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I think that 20 years ago, not too many people would imagine a meeting - interesting meeting, a substantive meeting between the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the President of the United States.
Nguyen Phu Trong
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Communist
Communist Party
Imagine
Interesting
Party
President
Secretary
States
United States
Vietnam
Years Ago
General
Meeting
Substantive
Too Many People
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I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that.
Mary Berry
/
Changed
Chips
Fireman
Grandchildren
Years Ago
Caused
Fat
Good Enough Who
Cook
Met
Oven
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Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
Jay Alan Sekulow
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Finance
Campaign Finance
Campaign Finance Reform
Decades
Reform
Sanctions
Years Ago
Rules
Alien
Campaign
Criminal
Regulations
Violating
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A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.
Gene Ween
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Musician
Beaten
Radio
Singles
Years Ago
Time Better People
Label
Right People
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Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
Maurice Strong
/
Baby
Canada
Children
Restriction
Suggesting
Years
Years Ago
Babies
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When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.
Andre Rieu
/
Violinist
Born
Changed
Cried
Cry
Essence
Grandchildren
Son
Years Ago
Life Me Day
All Day
Twin
Life Father Me
Linda
Pierre
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
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Member Of The House Of Lords
Past
Wonder
Would Be
Years
Years Ago
Anything Else
Life Time Past
In The Past
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I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had actually been discovered by the great ancient Indian sages, 5,000 years ago.
Shiva Ayyadurai
/
Ancient
Engineering
Indian
Principles
Western
Years Ago
Discovered
Foundations
Importantly
Systems
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Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.
Chris Hardwick
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Comedian
Color
Different
Mess
Prioritize
Stuff
Years
Years Ago
Rules
Assistant
Calendar
Figure
Point
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If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.
Matthew Walker
/
Eight
Idiotic
Millions
Mother Nature
Percent
Six
Years Ago
Millions Of Years
Survive
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Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
Ted Naifeh
/
Comic Book Writer
Adore
Blue
Comic
Fantasy
Nancy
Series
Urban
Years Ago
Collins
Designed
Teenagers
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
Ted Danson
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Actor
Huge
Impact
Legislation
Recycling
Talking
Years
Years Ago
Basically
Diversified
Drain
Dumping
Help
Talked
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I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
Andrea Thompson
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Actress
Art
Apology
Artist
Black
Black And White
Creative
Made
Prestigious
Publication
White
Years
Years Ago
Decisions
Did
Career
Magazine
Piece
Pose
Several
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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
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Television Producer
Journey
Book
Caves
Character
Scripts
Years Ago
Plays
Shakespeare
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It's an amazing story.
John C. Mather
/
Amazing
Made
Stars
Used
Years
Years Ago
Time Stars Look
Back
Bang
Big Bang
Billion
Time Amazing Look
Idea
Explosion
Galaxies
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I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.
Giuliana Rancic
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Television Personality
Long
Long Way
Mastectomy
Research
Scary
Seeing
Stigma
Surgery
Years
Years Ago
Me Long Way
Word
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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes
/
Activist
Government
Income
Income Tax
Socialist
Tariffs
Years
Years Ago
Tax
Allowed
Claim
Failed
Experiment
Imposed
Sales
Tariff
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Probably about 10 years ago or so I told my grandmother that I always wanted to make a record of hymns if I could ever make a career of all of this. She kind of held me to it. She passed away in 1999. I just never forgot it.
Bart Millard
/
Singer-Songwriter
Grandmother
Hymns
If I Could
Years Ago
Me Always Never
Forgot
Held
Record
Passed
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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
Seth Lloyd
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Professor
Billions
Density
Fluctuation
Galaxy
Quantum
Sitting
Years
Years Ago
Caused
According
Collapsing
Model
Lower
Standard
Perhaps
Slightly
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Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
Bob Beauprez
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Former United States Representative
Budgets
Four
Income
Pledge
Poor
Years
Years Ago
Obama
Relentlessly
Assaulted
Violated
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Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
Ben Shahn
/
Artist
Asia
Details
Sculpture
Years Ago
Time Done People
Time People Details
Began
Camera
Photographs
Hundreds
Monuments
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The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.
Reza Aslan
/
Writer
Jesus
Church
Historical
Taught
Years Ago
Man More Who
Chasm
Realize
Studying
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I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'
Josh Homme
/
Three
Years Ago
Time Men Man
Coat
Deal
Johnny
Mine
Real Man
Remade
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After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
Mark Kelly
/
Airplane
Columbia
Flying
Loss
Risk
Space Shuttle
Vehicle
Years Ago
Couple Of Years Ago
Reminded
Shuttle
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A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
Johannes Rau
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Former President Of Germany
Fair Share
Fundamentals
Hundred
Share
Years
Years Ago
German
Co-Operative
Composers
Ensure
Fair
Fundamental
Hundred Years
Performed
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Andy Hertzfeld
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Computer Scientist
Couple
Developing
Information
Innovative
Macintosh
Personal Information
Writing
Years
Years Ago
Essentially
Project
Manager
Memoirs
Personal
Took
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Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.
Patti Davis
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Actress
Administration
Cells
Gates
Offering
Research
Taken
Treatment
Years Ago
Bush
Bush Administration
Christopher
Closer
Flung
Reeve
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Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.
John Fusco
/
Extinction
Native
Native American
Obsession
Research
Tracing
Twelve
Years Ago
Became
Horses
Pine
Ridge
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The whole point of Lady Gaga is that anyone can do it. A few years ago she was a nobody. She talks about how it's important for people to know that by sheer force of will they can bring about anything they want in their lives.
Rostam Batmanglij
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Songwriter
Force
Gaga
Sheer
Years Ago
People Important Will
Lady
Lady Gaga
Talks
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Author
Backwards
Sick
Years Ago
Horses
Intent
Professor
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My favorite leather jacket I got for 40 bucks at the Fairfax Flea Market, like, eight years ago. Leather just gets better over time. There's something about a jacket that you have over years and years - just fits like a glove.
Jack Falahee
/
Bucks
Eight
Leather
Years Ago
Favorite
Fits
Gets
Glove
Jacket
Market
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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
/
Columnist
Editors
Forgiving
Forty
Jail
Point Of View
Reporters
Thinking
Views
Years
Years Ago
Forty Years
Front Page
Page
Stick
Tail
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Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to land a reporting job at 'The Washington Post,' which pretty much put me in a state of constant awe. Bob Woodward would dish up ice cream sundaes for anyone stuck working on the weekend.
Gwen Ifill
/
Journalist
Awe
Bob
Constant
Cream
Fortunate
Ice
Ice Cream
Stuck
Weekend
Years Ago
Washington
Dish
Post
Reporting
Washington Post
Woodward
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The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
Mary Ann Mobley
/
Actress
Doing The Right Thing
Home State
Mississippi
Right Thing
Years Ago
Attack
Reaction
Steroids
The One Thing
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I've had lots of supernatural experiences, but I always just blame them on my brain playing tricks. About five years ago, I woke up to a little girl lying next to me in my bed and when I reacted to her, she mirrored what I did.
Michelle Keegan
/
Bed
Blame
Brain
Lying
Tricks
Years Ago
Always Brain Me
Lots
Experiences
Little Girl
Supernatural
Woke
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I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.
Andrew Zimmern
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Television Personality
Choices
Soup
Understood
Years Ago
Against
Stand
Life My Life Choices
Behind
Tasted
Life My Life Stand
Consequently
Exactly
Exactly What
Harvesting
Personal
Shark
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