Best ifs & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.”

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Author:Ray Lewis

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.”

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Author:Mary McDonnell

“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”

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Author:Mike McCready

“If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.”

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Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

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Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.”

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Author:Norman MacCaig

“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.”

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Author:Patrick Macnee

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

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Author:Roger McGuinn

“If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.”

Ifs Years Ideas Lasts Normal Discovery Cancer Versions Genes Oncology

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.”

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Author:Sterling Marlin

“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.”

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Author:Walter Murch

“Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.”

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Author:Zayn Malik

“Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.”

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Author:Franco Nero

“I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.”

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Author:Karen O

“In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'”

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Author:Keith O'Brien

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

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Author:Kevin O'Leary

“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.”

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Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.”

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Author:Bubba Watson

“Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.”

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Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.”

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Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.”

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Author:Brian Littrell

“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

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Author:Anna Popplewell

“Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.”

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Author:Sigmar Polke

“Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.”

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Author:Jason Priestley

“I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.”

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Author:Jean Pigozzi

“I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.”

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Author:William Petersen

“I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.”

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Author:Angela Ruggiero

“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.”

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Author:Ray Stevenson

“I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.”

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Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.”

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Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes. Maybe he's concerned about that. But if it's going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.”

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Author:Joe Scarborough

“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.”

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Author:Anthony Calvillo

“If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.”

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Author:Joshua Lederberg

“If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.”

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Author:Joshua Lederberg

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.”

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Author:Justin Theroux

“I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.”

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Author:Blair Underwood

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