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You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.
It took me years to realize that 'normal' is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.
I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.
In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.
The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.
After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.
It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .
The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.
You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6000 years of existence. It just doesn't.
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'
Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.
For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.
SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!
[Jack Johnson] really helped me make the record, put it out, and then let me tour with him for two years. He really helped me out.
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.
When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.