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At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.
We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.
A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.
I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.
When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.
I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.
To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.
Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.
I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.
my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.
I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.
While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.
Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better
Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science
The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.
If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.
If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.
[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.