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Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'
We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.
I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.
My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.
I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.
One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.
The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.
A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
Wal-Mart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just [2017] year because of our various plans and initiatives.
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.
I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.
It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.
Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.