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Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.
I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.
Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.
Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.
I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.
The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.
I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.
I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
We don't believe that you should ever replace physical education. Even in a thousand years, a computer will never be able to do so.
Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.
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.
Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.
You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.