Quotes and Sayings About Years
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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
-- Alain de Botton -
Et une fois de plus je m'avan c° ais le long de ces me" mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis des anne es, a'  votre rencontre. And one more time, I advanced along these same hallways, walking for days, for months, for years, to meet you.
-- Alain Robbe-GrilletSource : 1961 L'Anne e dernie're a' Marienbad.
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The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.
-- Alaine Chartrand -
When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
-- Alan Alda -
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
-- Alan ArkinSource : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.
-- Alan ArkinSource : "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.
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There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure. . . . A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth's.
-- Alan Bennett -
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.
-- Alan Brinkley -
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If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
-- Alan Cohen -
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
-- Alan Davies -
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
-- Alan Dundes -
Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.
-- Alan Finger -
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.
-- Alan Freed -
Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?
-- Alan Grant -
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
-- Alan Greenspan -
We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
-- Alan Greenspan -
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s:...
-- Alan Greenspan -
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
-- Alan Jackson -
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
-- Alan Jackson -
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If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
-- Alan JacksonSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
-- Alan Jackson -
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
-- Alan Jay LernerSource : "Why Can't the English?" (song) (1956)
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
-- Alan Kay -
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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
-- Alan Keyes -
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws
-- Alan KeyesSource : Source: www.macleans.ca