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Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.
American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.
I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
Well, you know, I don't really want to trade next year. I certainly enjoyed having the jacket put on me rather than putting it on.
I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.
Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
Three, four, five years, we’re out of here. You know what I’m saying? It’s a TV show. This thing ain’t gonna last forever. No way.
And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.
We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.
At home, we have begun the monumental task of returning the government back to the people on a scale not seen in many, many years.
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.
I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.
It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.
To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.