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It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?
Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
I've been involved in and out of the UN for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
[John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves.
I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.
I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.
There's no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, I'll make it through another five years.
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.
Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.