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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.
I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.
I've taken Eco drink everyday for a year and I can tell you that it works!!!! I definitely can tell when I miss a day.
There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'
You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.
It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
I did an episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I've known him for years.
When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.
I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.
I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.
I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.
You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.
I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.