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There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.
Maggie Smith
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Actress
Brother
Two
Years
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Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.
Blue Balliett
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Author
Eye
People
Years
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...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Novelist
House
Land
Years
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In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
Lewis Black
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Comedian
Funny
Humor
Believe
Evolution
Gore
Lifetime
Twelve
Voting
Years
Believe I Believe I Believe That
Al
Al Gore
Bush
Eisenhower
George
George W
George W. Bush
John
Plants
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In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.
Seymour S. Kety
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Brain
People
Years
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As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
Ryan Giggs
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Soccer Player
Children
Footballer
Imagine
Legs
Use
Years
Accidentally
Exactly
Exactly What
Sadly
Step
Thousands
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The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Lawyer
Home
Mom
Years
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Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.
Erma Bombeck
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Column Author
Eating
Taste
Years
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The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.
Glenn Frey
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Musician
Drinking
Eagles
Intense
Relieved
Years
Treadmill
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There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.
Ernest Mandel
/
Important
Revolution
Workers
World
Years
Somewhere
World Way Important
Hardly
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My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
David Sedaris
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Humorist
Sister
Months
People
Worried
Writing
Years
Years Ago
Me People Never
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There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Researcher
Science
Doubt
Years
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When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
Graham Greene
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Writer
Liars
Next Week
Years
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There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.
Lene Marlin
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Singer
School
Thinking
Years
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The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.
John Burroughs
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Essayist
Men
Wind
Years
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I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.
Akshay Kumar
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Film Actor
People
Taught
Today
Years
Achieved
Became
Meeting
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Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
Carl Lewis
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Track And Field Athlete
New Year
Free Your Mind
Pact
Thinking
Years
Free
Mind Your New
Eve
List
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It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.
Gustavo Kuerten
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Tennis Player
Home
Winning
Years
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Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.
Cornelius Eady
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Writer
Three
Writing
Years
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
Burning Spear
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Singer
Patience
Work
Five
Hard
Hard Work
Ten
Years
Lot
Patience Work Hard Work
Call
Legend
Longer
See
Takes
Ten Years
Than
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.
Vince Cable
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British Politician
Gambling
Loss
Years
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If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.
Harry Hay
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Activist
Fashion
Names
Years
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Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.
Ludwig Von Mises
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Philosopher
Men
Two
Years
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After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.
Fetty Wap
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Rapper
Rich
Trying
Years
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Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.
Trombone Shorty
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Music
Next
Years
Again
Doing
Dead
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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
Polly Toynbee
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Journalist
Illness
Lasts
Mental Illness
Poverty
Stronger
Unhappiness
Years
Highly
Mental
Predictor
Ranks
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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
Henry Bessemer
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Engineer
Energy
Feet
Height
Temperament
Years
Arrived
Attained
Endowed
Extremely
Fraction
Youthful
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In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.
Lewis Thomas
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Physician
Capable
Experts
Fields
Mind
Sophisticated
Years
Life Best Great
Minds
Required
Sciences
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I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.
Howard Dean
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Former Governor Of Vermont
America
Believe
Years
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
David Duchovny
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Actor
Kids
Entertainment
Play
Sat
Years
Watched
Grown-Ups
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Major
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The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.
Anthony Bourdain
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Chef
Dubious
Matter
Years
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Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
Austan Goolsbee
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Economist
Average
Cutting
Dollars
Income
Million Dollars
Years
People Way More
Effective
Effective Way
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The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
Don Cornelius
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Television Host
Fans
Importance
Legacy
Millions
Offers
Soul
Torches
Years
Brand
Finally
Pass
Torch
Utmost
Utmost Importance
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Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
Chantal Kreviazuk
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Singer-Songwriter
Crafts
Past
Revealing
Skills
Years
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It's taken a hundred years or more for some of these places [inner cities] to evolve and they evolved many of them very badly, but we're going to work very hard on health and health care.
Donald Trump
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45Th President Of The United States
Cities
Taken
Years
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The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
Jose Mourinho
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Football Team Manager
Player
Two
Years
Me Day Way
Believed
Half Years
Manager
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
John Bright
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British Statesman
Depression
Great
Agriculture
Great Depression
Prosperous
Seasons
Years
Caused
Had
Much
Bad
Too
Suffered
Extension
Mainly
Some
Rapid
Several
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To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.
Alicia Keys
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Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Kids
Bronx
Crazy
Crazy World
Forgotten
Involved
Years
Letting
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I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.
David Bezmozgis
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Writer
Book
Writing
Years
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Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.
Adam Kokesh
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4th Of July
Government
Years
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There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.
Jill Scott
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Singer-Songwriter
Long
Strong
Years
Hear
Marriages
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He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.
Bruce Robinson
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Screenwriter
Atheist
Past
Years
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Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.
Justin Cronin
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Author
Girl
Iowa
Years
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Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.
Russell Baker
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Writer
Home
Wall
Years
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But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
Joseph C. Lincoln
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Author
Died
Fifty
Fishing
Hands
Majority
Marine
Portuguese
Years
Years Ago
Cape
Unfortunately
Merchant
Till
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Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.
Maud Lindsay
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Author
Once Upon A Time
Pie
Years
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Tom Hanks
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Actor
Birthday
Smile
Baby
Crush
Decided
Generations
Years
Anybody Else
Age People New
Babies
Essentially
More People
Peak
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I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.
Douglas Booth
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Actor
Feet
Rugby
Teenage
Teenage Years
Thinking
Years
Me Keep More
Missed
Sets
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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.
Mark Twain
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Author
Form
Insanity
Years
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Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.
Jay Sean
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Singer-Songwriter
Done
Mistress
Years
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