“I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.” KnowsWorldWritingYearsFightingCoursesNextBreakFansShapesMy FriendsFellowsCancerCuresTherapyPerformingTreatmentFollowersContinuingTravelerNext YearFighting CancerTaking A BreakFellow Travelers Author:Jon Lord
“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.” KnowsYearsMadeStillsPlaySchoolNightLinesFiveDirectorsPerformancesDisasterOpeningEmbarrassedJuniorsJunior YearOpening Night Author:Katie Leclerc
“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.” KnowsMenYearsMayTwoHardStoriesFoundHe ManProudPlantDecadesManagersTireAlabamaNineteen Author:Lilly Ledbetter
“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.” KnowsYearsWholeJobsBitsHappenedHavensYears AgoPianoProvidingGood Job Author:Marian McPartland
“The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.” PeopleKnowsYearsSaidJobsRememberDangerYears AgoThirtyFortyWebsiteRemember Something Author:Patrick Macnee
“Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.” KnowsWritingYearsWellsFiveLuckyBrilliantJust OneScreenplays Author:Patrick Marber
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsDoeStillsHelpingArtistStuffLevelsKnow HowRecordsFieldsStudiosSoftwareMicrophonesLaptopsPlaying FieldsYears Of Experience Author:Roger McGuinn
“There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.” KnowsYearsWould BeUsedSongSoundPartyMy FriendsGuitar Author:Teena Marie
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsLooksMadeHardHard TimesAwkwardWince Author:Jodie Foster
“My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.” KnowsGivingYearsEnoughPhilosophyCareersApproachGive MeGood EnoughAnother Year Author:David Nail
“I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.” KnowsWorldYearsGuyImagineNbaUnbelievable Author:Don Nelson
“You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.” KnowsYearsHas BeensStillsAliveFantastic Author:Graham Nash
“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.” ThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasSelfHomeForceSacrificeAirDadDirectMy DadCrewSelf SacrificeAir ForceIndirect Author:Jeremy Northam
“We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.” KnowsYearsGamesJudgingTraditionGolfAncientGreat History Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev
“To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.” KnowsYearsHas BeensPlayAbleSchoolLawStuffTalkingLawyerFasterBeltsLaw SchoolCourtroom Author:Jerry O'Connell
“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsWellsCharacterFeelingsMightJournalistListenersGood Writers Author:Louise Penny
“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.” KnowsYearsFirstsMadeSpeakCausesSidesNumbersRocksTheoryReturnRootsLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyFirmReasoningArrowsObjectionsInfallibleOntologyArcher Author:Georg Cantor
“There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.” KnowsInspirationalYearsFirstsSaidSpeakLinesSevenGapsSeven Years Author:Christopher Lee
“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsYearsLongRunningUsedStarsEnvironmentOne ThingThis WorldFootballCollegeComfortablePreparedNutsSeniorCollege FootballSenior Year Author:Donal Logue
“The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.” KnowsYearsWarSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolMajorityCivil WarHigh School Students Author:Jim Leach
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsChildrenWholeFilmActorsFeltAdultsWhole LifeManageTransitionFilm SetChild Actors Author:Anna Popplewell
“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.” KnowsYearsStoriesSchoolLeftCarHigh SchoolYeahMovedTypicalIdaho Author:Aaron Paul
“One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.” KnowsYearsWellsCharacterTelevisionBenefits Author:Aleksa Palladino
“In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.” KnowsWayYearsKindPlayWould BeNextFemaleDoctorsCleverVersionsDoctor WhoCrafty Author:Billie Piper
“I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.” KnowsYearsLittlesPersonsLastsMy OwnCompanyBuildingSonYeahMy SonTransitionLast YearGrooveHappy Person Author:Carl Paladino
“I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLooksDifferentLife IsGirlBitsSecret Author:Francine Pascal
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsSaidEndsProblemPastEvilYears AgoPaychecksMtv Author:Martha Plimpton
“I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsSaidReasonWould BeAgeNumbersDoctorsActiveListsRidiculousBloodyVitamins Author:Regis Philbin
“I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.” KnowsYearsPersonsDifferentGirlImagineHavensDramaQueensConfessionTeenage Author:Megan Fox
“I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.” KnowsWantYearsWantedPresidentGrowing UpGrowingTenTownsChicagoMayors Author:William Petersen
“One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.” KnowsYearsPlayNextRolesStudyThese DaysLatinEvita Author:Aileen Quinn
“It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.” KnowsYearsLongSometimesHardWholeLastsDifficultToughSeasonsTiredFocusedStay FocusedSlam Author:Agnieszka Radwanska
“I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?” KnowsWayFeelsYearsCoupleMtv Author:Crystal Reed
“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.” KnowsYearsSchoolCitiesCompanyTeacherNew YorkVictimSellingNew York CityEngineersEquipmentPublic SchoolJerseyNew JerseySchool SystemLayoffFiltration Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.” KnowsYearsMayStatesHappensValuesGreaterFourCollegeEducationalRangeFour YearsAdmission Author:Roy Romer
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.” KnowsWritingYearsMadeLaughingScaredExcited Author:Jonathan Stroud
“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.” KnowsWayYearsHardFallSidesActingFiveCollegeCommittedQuittingFive YearsDoveI QuitGo Hard Author:Sonja Sohn
“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.” KnowsYearsFirstsCountryStatesInspirationGirlOpportunityGivenBecomingFemaleAllowingGovernorsUnlimitedVermontMadeleinesYears Of Service Author:Bernie Sanders
“There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.” PeopleKnowsYearsWholeClassMiddleRocksYears AgoRegardComedian Author:Bob Saget
“If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsAir Author:Cristina Saralegui
“And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.” KnowsWritingYearsMeanBookCoursesGivenSixAspirationTake MeAccommodate Author:George Saunders
“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWritingYearsWellsI CanTwoBookHelpingHonestBecomingFinished Author:John Sandford
“I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.” KnowsYearsFactsChristianJesusStrongMy FriendsAtheistCommittedPlentyFollowersSkepticThrough The Years Author:Lee Strobel
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsMindBelieveLongDoneGamesSportsLinesFocusReadyHugeHealthyAchievementTrainingPreparationConsistentBelieve In MeOf My Mind Author:Anthony Calvillo
“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsStoriesAmericaFacesTalkingGoneCoupleTerribleRight NowDilemmaThrough The Years Author:Joan Lunden
“I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.” KnowsYearsStillsTogetherFoundYears AgoVicesQuittingNineSmokeSmokingPregnantChipsPotatoesI QuitNine YearsQuit SmokingWere PregnantPotato ChipsChardonnay Author:Jean Smart
“I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.” KnowsYearsEnoughChildhoodChaosDealing With It Author:Jeremy Sisto
“Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.” KnowsFeelsYearsMindGriefVisionWorstDadPeriodsLosingSevenMy DadEightWorst ThingsOld YouLosing Him Author:Richie Sambora
“We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.” KnowsWorldYearsHas BeensLastsClassKnow HowAmountEducatedScholarshipMonarchsUpper Class Author:Stacy Schiff