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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.
I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.
Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.
I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.
Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.
Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.
Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
In all the years together You've shared joy, and contentment too Long may it continue In the years ahead, for the both of you
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.
People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.
Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite.
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.
After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.
Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.