“I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.” WayYearsPlayStuffPlayerMirrorsNotesSevenRidiculousSmokeShakesRight TimeSeven YearsTrumpetsVibrateSmoke And Mirrors Author:Zach Condon
“Just always be extremely respectful, was something that was drilled into me, which I think probably prevented me from having sex for a good seven years longer than it should have.” ThinkingShouldYearsSexShould HaveSevenSeven YearsRespectfulHaving Sex Author:Seth Rogen
“I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind, the executive producer is the person that is in charge of everything up to the point that the album comes out. So not just the music but also the music video, album artwork, photographs, and even the material the album itself would be made out of.” YearsMindWellsPersonsMadeBigsWould BeMaterialsSevenPhotographAlbumsVideoProducersExecutivesSeven YearsBangsArtwork Author:Seungri
“I myself am doing a full year of experiments every seven years, but I'm sure many other divisions are possible, depending on the field, the possibilities, and personal preferences. One hour a day or a day a week.” YearsHoursWeekFieldsPossibilitySevenExperimentsDivisionPreferenceSeven YearsOne HourPersonal Preferences Author:Stefan Sagmeister
“My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.” YearsRememberHousePlayerFansMomSixSevenMy MomTennisSeven YearsTennis PlayerMonicaWimbledonGreat Tennis Author:Tom Brady
“The first important [step] one was going to school. There was an advantage as there was a one-room schoolhouse that was within walking distance of my home. I went there being very shy, but I fit in quickly, and I was nurtured by a very dedicated and caring teacher, Magdalen George, who we referred to as Miss George. She was my teacher for a full seven years.” YearsFirstsImportantHomeSchoolRoomsStepsTeacherMissingFitWalkingAdvantageDistanceSevenCaringShyDedicatedSeven Years Author:Paul Smith
“Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et cetera. They like America for what we stand for. And one of the things, and I feel proud to be, what this president's for, the last seven years, is we have once again aligned our basic fundamental beliefs and principles with our conduct. And it matters. It matters in terms of our security. It matters in terms of our ability to influence the world. It matters in our ability to succeed.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsWellsMatterLastsAmericaBeliefPresidentTermAbilityPrinciplesInfluenceSecurityMilitaryProudSucceedFundamentalsSevenSeven YearsAbility To Succeed Author:Joe Biden
“I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.” WritingYearsYears AgoSevenSeven YearsGenesis Author:Natalie Dormer
“I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingYearsKindEnoughPresidentAdviceTrumpSmartMouthsGive MeSevenRanGovernorsSeven YearsGood AdviceAdvisors Author:Chris Christie
“Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.” PeopleIfsYearsHas BeensHalfMillionsFiguresSevenBillionsMaking MoneyUsersLimbsUnlikelySeven Years Author:David Heinemeier Hansson
“I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.” YearsDoneWholeWantedGuyForeverHairSkinsIndependentSevenWhole LifeBrownShedExtensionsSeven YearsLife And Change Author:Jillian Hervey
“I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked from. He captured exactly what we looked like. I'd love to do another one with Alison, not just for the joy of writing, but also for the joy of watching Tony bring it to life with his illustrations. I'm hoping at BEA, or ALA, I'll get to meet Tony and shake his hand and thank him.” ThinkingWritingYearsHandsJoySevenShakesSeven YearsCapturedIllustration Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.” PeopleYearsKindI CanMomentsLightSixTrainingSevenStatementsJust OneConferencesSeven YearsLeadership TrainingBulbsLight Bulb Author:John C. Maxwell
“I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.” YearsLongTwoMarriedSevenTwo YearsStringsSeven YearsDivorcedFlingLong Relationship Author:Sutton Foster
“You settled a debt instead of paying in full will stay on your credit report for as long as the individual accounts are reported, which is typically seven years from the date that the account was settled. Unlike with bankruptcy, there isn't a separate line on your credit report dedicated to debt settlement, so each account settled will be listed as a charge-off.” YearsLongIndividualLinesAccountsSevenCreditDebtReportsDedicatedSeven YearsSettlementBankruptcyDebt Settlement Author:Jean Chatzky
“I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.” TryingYearsEntrepreneurSevenSeven Years Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsKindMeanEndsStatesAmericaEnergyEnjoyCareersGraceStrangeSixPressureSevenChaptersSeven YearsRapidsAscending Author:Colin Farrell
“I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.” YearsLastsSevenLondonWho I AmBusShoppingSeven Years Author:FKA twigs
“When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.” WritingYearsDifferentSelfMightYoungTalkingFiveGroupsTaughtSixConsciousAdultsSevenTeenagerSeven YearsSelf ConsciousDetachedBe Young Author:Alice Mattison
“My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my oldest brother was 18. And my youngest brother was 11. By the time I was 7 or 8, everyone had moved out. I went from being with ten people all the time to being an only child. It really freaked me out.” PeopleYearsChildrenKidsBornBrotherMomTenMovedSevenMy MomSeven YearsOnly Child Author:Ryan McGinley
“My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.” YearsWarKidsGuyDadShotsSevenMy DadNineHolesBulletsSeven YearsKoreanKorean War Author:Ryan McGinley
“I think seven years is a great time to end a series.” ThinkingYearsEndsSeriesSevenSeven YearsGreat Times Author:Daniel Palladino
“When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.” WorldYearsHas BeensSaidWarLawMilitarySevenDefenseWar Of The WorldsDepartmentWorld War IiWorld War ISecretarySeven YearsGeneral James MattisMilitary Experience Author:Steve Inskeep
“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.” PeopleIfsMenTryingYearsMeanUseProblemBlackDecisionLevelsMillionsTomorrowSixPercentYears AgoCourtSevenEducationalSolveSupremeBlack PeopleIntegrationSupreme CourtSeven YearsIntegrating Author:Malcolm X
“I didn't really watch the show [Star Trek]. I still haven't seen about 150 of them. So I didn't really think of them too much in terms of episodes. I thought of them as kind of one long seven-year episode.” ThinkingYearsKindLongStillsShowsStarsTermWatchesToo MuchHavensSevenEpisodesSeven Years Author:Brent Spiner
“I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.” YearsMonthsCoupleSevenEndureDataMakeupDrsSeven Years Author:Brent Spiner
“It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I might be too old!” YearsPlayCharacterMightHappenedYears AgoOriginalsSevenI RealizedFenceBroadwaySeven YearsAugustScreenplaysWilson Author:Denzel Washington
“When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."” YearsSaidI CanStoriesShowsBigsFansHorrorDaughterSevenCornersStoresMy DaughterNew OrleansSeven YearsGroceriesAround The CornerGrocery StoresHorror StoriesAmerican Horror Story Author:Kathy Bates
“My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'” YearsWhiteSceneDressesSevenMy FavoriteCollectionsCostumesBreezeSeven YearsSubway Author:Debbie Reynolds
“No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.” MenNeedsYearsWellsKindStoriesOne ThingHe ManTerribleHarderSevenStorytellingSeven Years Author:Roxane Gay
“I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."” KnowsWritingYearsBookWarStuffClassWrittenTeachingTaughtAmountDrugSevenNonfictionSeven YearsWriting A BookWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'” MenYearsWellsMadeTelevisionSeriesSevenElephantsSeven YearsElephant Man Author:John Hurt
“Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.” IfsYearsBodyCareYears AgoSevenCancerCriticalTake CareYour BodySeven Years Author:Eve Ensler
“I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.” WritingYearsSevenScriptsChinesePreparingSeven YearsZodiac Author:Jackie Chan
“I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.” YearsPlayStoriesWantedMotherKnownTeacherPagesSevenGradesJournalSeven Years Author:Renee Watson
“The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven years, in March it was seven years since the president signed the bill. They've been baying at the moon that they had a better idea.” YearsHas BeensIdeasPresidentRepublicanMoonBillsSevenMarchSeven Years Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanReasonDoneLastsAmericaFilmCareersNiceMiddleTelevisionOceanSixEnglandTheaterPreparedSevenRadioSeven YearsReally Nice Author:Rufus Sewell
“I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.” MenFeelsYearsOrderGrowsHellLike YouSevenMatureSeven Years Author:Michael Clayton
“The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].” WorldYearsDangerousYears AgoSevenSeven YearsDangerous Places Author:Kris Kobach
“When you're doing improv for seven years, you're an old soul of the improv world.” WorldYearsSoulSevenSeven YearsOld Soul Author:Kurt Braunohler
“The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with writing songs and knew I wanted to make music and play it for a lot of people. Back then I said I wanted to heal people with music and bring them together. I called my music, "PAZZ," which means pop and jazz. To this day, all of those things still ring crystal clear.” PeopleWantWritingYearsMeanSaidStillsPlayWantedTogetherArtistSongClearChangedConceptsJazzSevenPopsRingsHealThis DaySeven YearsCrystalsWriting Songs Author:Grace Kelly
“I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].” PeopleYearsStillsWeekEmotionalSixYears AgoSevenReactionsSeven YearsDevastatedFinaleEmotional Reactions Author:Julie Benz
“I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my eighth-grade yearbook when we moved, and I had listed "WRITER" as my future occupation. It's always been something I've been hungry to do, but I think the more practical side of me (encouraged by the more practical sides of my parents of course) shied away from pursuing a career in creative writing, in favor of something a little "safer" like law.” ThinkingWritingYearsLittlesWantedLawCoursesFoundParentSidesCareersCreativeMovedSevenLibraryFavorsPracticalsHungryLocalsGradesOccupationContestsEnteringCreative WritingSeven YearsMy FutureEighth GradeYearbook Author:Lee Kelly
“I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path.” WantYearsShowsPathTvsBandModelsTownsSevenWelcomeBusTapeTv ShowsCrewSeven YearsShortcutsKaraoke Author:Kenny Chesney
“The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in spite of seven years of their warnings. Their main problem is that they don't have the character to admit that they are wrong. They don't have enough character to rethink their deeply held assumptions.” YearsEnoughCharacterProblemPartyHappenedRepublicanSevenSpendingAssumptionSpiteEtcWarningConsistentlyRepublican PartyInflationSeven YearsStimulusObamacare Author:Philip Kotler
“I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."” IfsYearsFirstsDoeSaidCareCan DoRepublicanOkaySevenIncludingHealth CareEmsHealthcareSeven YearsSkepticalSomething BetterObamacareCan Do Something Author:Barack Obama
“I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my dreams a reality, I had to take the reigns. I had to learn something about being productive and being self what's the word I'm looking for? Self-sufficient, but I had to be productive at all costs and I had to make product.” IfsYearsSelfDreamRealityActingProductsCostSevenSufficientProductiveReignSeven YearsSelf Sufficient Author:Vin Diesel
“It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago did I realize that this book covers a seven-year period in the history of ancient Israel in which they literally went undefeated.They did have one setback, but outside of that, they defeated over 30 kings. They recaptured the Promised Land. They did what their ancestors said they could not.” WayYearsSaidBookStoriesRealizingLandKingsPeriodsUniqueSevenAncientMy FavoriteIsraelAncestorDefeatedSeven YearsSetbackPromised LandFavorite BookUndefeatedBook CoversStory Book Author:Max Lucado
“For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery and analogy for the Christian life. As Christians, we have the same images. We've come out of Egypt (been saved) we've crossed over, and Jesus Christ is our Moses and our Joshua.” YearsBookChristianFoundJesusChristJesus ChristSevenAncientIsraelSavedChristian LifeEgyptSeven YearsImageryMosesAnalogies Author:Max Lucado
“In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.” PeopleIfsYearsKindEnoughChallengesFiveGroupsTvsLuckySixTheaterSeriesSevenCastsBunchEach DayCrewSeven Years Author:Denis Leary