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“People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Couple Asking Retiring Right Time

“Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Week Perception Gasoline Inventory Previous Years

Author:Kyle Cooper

“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

Years Has Beens States Facts Today Lasts Five Painting Painter Prize Turner Curator

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Fields Bird Something New

Author:Steve Madden

“Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.”

Years Believe May Has Beens Movement Involved Republican Bills Campaigns Finance Reform Campaign Finance Campaign Finance Reform Reform Movements

Author:Robert Torricelli

“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”

People Years Has Beens Jobs Lasts Bits Growth Company Economy Week Couple Management Decent Buying Chocolate Improving Accounting Great Job Restructuring

Author:Liz Miller

“Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.”

Thinking Way Years Has Beens Sometimes Kids Team Blessed Chaos

Author:Jim Calhoun

“Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.”

Knows Years Has Beens Use Artist Chance Interesting Creative Study Creation Fields Colour Schemes Creative Art Creative Artists Adventuring

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”

Way Years May Has Beens Book Past Reading Grades Fifth New Books Sixth Grade Eighth Grade

Author:Brian J. White

“Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.”

Years Humans Wells Children Has Beens Shows Given Ability Adults Tasks Comparison Village Monkeys Boston Amazon Dots

Author:Elizabeth Spelke

“The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.”

Needs Years Has Beens School Values Process Students Offers Years Ago Nutrition Committees Extensions Curves Coventry

Author:Michael Reeves

“Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.”

Years Long Has Beens Country Enough President Media Six Flaws

Author:Robert Dallek

“I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well.”

Years Believe Wells Mean Has Beens Stills Gone Imagine Clubs Djs Holland

Author:Tiesto

“Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.”

Years Has Beens Past Values Community Creation Internet Majority Consumers Venture Over The Past

Author:Bill Gurley

“During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.”

“No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.”

Years Has Beens Art Problem Able Lasts Term Painter Fifty Cubism

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My wife and I have been going to a personal trainer for weights and balance twice a week for 10 years. My balance has improved tremendously and the weights decrease my age. I only feel 52, not 82.”

Feels Years Heart Has Beens Two Age Walks Morning Wife Week Balance My Heart Exercise Weight Increase Aging Rate My Wife Hills Each Day Bike Decrease Trainers Heart Rate

Author:Robert Bateman

“Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.”

“For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.”

People Years Has Beens Two Belief Nations Religious Diversity Hundred Islam Islamic Heritage

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.”

Years Has Beens Funny America Church Sleep Situation Nervous Tense Can't Sleep

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.”

Years Has Beens Today Courses Waiting Interest Wonderful Minutes Kings Actresses Giants Apes King Kong

Author:David Letterman

“I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.”

Thinking Trying Years Has Beens Important Opportunity Discipline Prison Sensations

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.”

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.”

People Giving Years Has Beens Helping Lasts Lost Race Successful Movement Members Institutions Dollars Fortune Worthy Billions Fifty Disloyalty

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.”

People Years Believe Mean Has Beens Matter Pain I Believe Religious Practice Identity Proud Be Proud Torment Observance

Author:Golda Meir

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"”

Thinking Years Wells Has Beens Beauty Smart Sexy Being Smart

Author:Jewel

“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”

“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.”

World Years Has Beens Stills Matter Enough Motivational Pay Journey Youth Taught Lessons Hippie Had Enough Best Year My Journey

Author:Paulo Coelho

“During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.”

Ifs Years May Has Beens Stills Use Lasts Responsibility Taken Land My Family Ran Visible Scar Exhausted Starving Healed Millionaire Restoration Pastures

Author:Wendell Berry

“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.”

People Years Has Beens Matter Next Land Hills Impunity Prodigals

Book:The Last Landscape

Source: The Last Landscape

“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Seems Might Three Left Pieces Four Fields Type Loud Something New Vocal Touring Left Field

Author:Dave Grohl

“Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.”

Knows Years Doe Has Beens Past Young Guy Hero That Guy My Hero

Author:Dave Grohl

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”

“Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.”

Years Has Beens Would Be Able Interesting Study Forty Karate Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Shigeru Egami

“Obama has been saying for years now - he said it again on Sunday - that climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, all the while he knew that Iran is just a couple months away from a nuclear bomb.”

Years Has Beens Said Planets Months Couple Threat Climate Climate Change Nuclear Bombs Sunday Iran Nuclear Bomb

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.”

“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“Rosalyn Bruyere has been one of the most important teachers of hands-on healing in the world for many years. I will always be grateful for what I have learned from her.”

World Years Has Beens Important Hands Healing Teacher Grateful I Have Learned Be Grateful

Author:Barbara Brennan

“Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Made Order Easier Equal Gold Weight Trade Appearance Silver Currency Coins Athens Gold And Silver

Author:Michael Maloney

“The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.”

People Years Has Beens Two Reason Hate Church Sin Terrible Thousand Majors Commit Reason Why Thousand Years Terrible Things

Author:Michael Coren

“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.”

People Knows Years Persons Has Beens Two Dies Causes Results Brain Talking Five Minutes Disease Scientist Average Posts Muscles Five Years Als Diagnosis Terminal Terminal Disease

Author:Steve Gleason

“I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.”

Years Has Beens Book Fine Drawing Surplus Observance

Book:A Roving Commission

Source: A Roving Commission

“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

World Years Has Beens Done Facts Able Left Force Break Air Terrible Essentials Ocean Army Obvious Fallen Guts Soviet Could Have Been Slaughter

Author:Winston Churchill

“First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.”

Source: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940

“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature”

Years Mind Has Beens Ends Literature Fiction Treats England Praise Presses British Brilliant Newspapers Kicks December Year End Pushkin

Author:Sylvia Brownrigg

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”

“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.”

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