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“Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.”

People Want Years Humans Kind Has Beens Use Seems Human Beings Taken Drug Years Ago Alcohol All Kinds Marijuana Tobacco Propensity

Author:Mick Jagger

“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.”

People Ifs Want Feels Years Looks Children Helping Seems Care Kids Pay Careers Taken Lucky Sick Foundation Get Better Hospitals Helping People Jackie Payback Sick Kids

Author:Jackie Chan

“It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.”

Knows Years I Can Body Taken Shapes Your Body Take Time It Takes Time Body Shapes

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.”

Way Years Walks Taken Journey Streets Fragrance

Author:Daphne Guinness

“It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.”

Years Looks Behinds Steps Taken Cameras Agree

Author:Kevin Smith

“Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.”

Men Years Bigs Energy Company Taken He Man Men And Women Vote Congress Campaigns Donation Subsidies

Author:Bill McKibben

“The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.”

Years Humor Religious Taken Degrees Devil Doctors Experts Doctor Who Carrying On

Book:The Life of Luther Written by Himself

Source: The Life of Luther Written by Himself

“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.”

Writing Years Book Different Girl Three Names Half Taken Four Months Eight Length Three Years Four Years Publishers Publish Another Year Seesaw

Author:Linda Sue Park

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.”

World Years America Careers Taken Wife Television Mets South My Wife East Russia Great Times Sweden South America

Author:Larry Hagman

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”

Ifs Men Years Littles Law Justice Quality Taken Mankind Conscience Essence All Time Code Sensations Fragments

Author:Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.”

Years Taken Elements Embrace Shining Who I Am

Author:Shelby Lynne

“It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.”

People Years States United United States Taken Stage Hundred Decided Slavery Plenty Abolition Abolition Of Slavery

Author:C. L. R. James

“In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.”

People Men Way Years Matter States Seems Jobs Realizing United United States Taken Four Fronts Eight Corporations Inexorable

Author:Alice Walker

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”

Years Has Beens Taken Spring Defeat Greece

Author:Herodotus

“I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.”

Years Made Body Wanted Study Taken Four Week Jokes Monkeys Governing Psychoanalysis Do It Yourself Ventriloquism

Author:Nina Conti

“I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.”

Trying Years I Can Bigs Jobs Given Realizing Situation Taken Like You Arena

Author:Thom Yorke

“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.”

Years House Energy Left White Taken Car Six Hundred Complexes Gas White House Efficiency Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Energy Efficiency

Author:William J. Clinton

“I'm 19 years old. I think I'm doing a pretty good job...Basically from my heart I really just want to say it really should be about to music. It should be about the craft that I'm making. This is not a gimmick and I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously.”

Thinking Want Should Years Heart Jobs Artist Taken My Heart Crafts Good Job Gimmicks

Author:Justin Bieber

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

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Author:Roger Clemens

“Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.”

Years Loss Taken Figures Youth Spring Trifles

Book:Letters to young ladies

Source: Letters to young ladies

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.”

Years Taken Elements Simplicity Unnecessary

Author:Andrew Lakey

“This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of.”

People World Feels Years Country States United Millions United States Taken Advantage Immigration Generous Taken Advantage

Author:Marco Rubio

“At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.”

Years Taken Position England France Germany Divergent

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.”

Way Want Years Firsts Two Care Pain Sports Taken Take Care Chairs Two Years Retired Tolls

Author:Eric Dickerson

“Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.”

People Years Helping Turns Roles Taken Teaching Models Areas Wheels Help Me Role Models Great Role Models

Author:Ralph Strangis

“We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Hard Done Kids Winning Process Goal Loss Taken Havens Becoming Victory Blessing Accomplish Key To Success Being A Kid Go Hard Turntables

Author:DJ Khaled

“Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along.”

“I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.”

Years Littles Care Sports Taken Five Magic Lessons Beats Don't Care I Don't Care Five Years Hats Five Year Olds Capes Jocks Top Hats

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”

Years Ends Pay Sun Taken Terrible Walking Thousand Intensity Apathy Away From You Hallways Tedium

Author:George Jung

“I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to write a novel that shows the points of view of people of different ages and personalities.”

People Thinking Writing Years Different Shows Age Able Process Views Novel Taken Personality Gains Point Of View Life Experience Writing Process Different Ages

Author:Kathleen Winter

“I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.”

Years Book Stories Taken Written Short Story

Author:Eve Bunting

“The sports are also hard on my body, and I do have a longstanding bad back due to an injury some years ago. I don't regret any part of it though. I love what I do and my sporting career has taken me to some wonderful places and seeing the world.”

World Years Hard Body Sports Careers Taken Wonderful Seeing Regret Years Ago Dues Injury Seeing The World Don't Regret Wonderful Places

Author:Liz Halliday

“In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.”

Years War Enough Guy Fighting Taken Wife Hero Horror Kissing Eras Girlfriend Goodbye Very Romantic Horror Of War

Author:Woody Allen

“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.”

Ifs Life Years Matter Whole Would Be Spirituality Universe Process Taken Evolution Enlightenment Conscious Gains Capacity Awakening Billions Instant

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being abused and he was out there cracking those rocks all day and he said after about 11 years he realized that they'd already taken about everything they could take from him except his mind and his heart”

Inspirational Years Mind Heart Said Motivational Young Taken Rocks Healthy Hatred Prison Well Being Already Taken

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.”

Years Purpose Results Taken Special Evolution Periods Built Years Ago Accounts Assumption Ads Fabric Hypothesis Convenient Grotesque Fantasia Tearing Apart

Author:James Bryant Conant

“As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.”

Years Powerful Attention Taken Years Ago Scientist Focused East Core Miles Ice Global Warming Trapped Carbon Sheets Elegant Measurement Carbon Dioxide Antarctica

Author:John Olver

“When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.”

Years Facts Three Challenges Cities Steps Taken Team Pride Type Proud Deserve Years Ago Determination Accepted Intense Nba Three Years Championship Bulls Nba Championships

Author:Doug Collins

“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Feelings Care Christian Form Law Belief Taken Atheism Childhood Habit Our Children Slave Positive Atheism Paris Customs Bent False Gods

Author:Voltaire

“I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.”

Ifs Want Years Long Enough Past Taken Havens Projects New Projects

Author:I. M. Pei

“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.”

Years Long Has Beens Government Might Past Cases Issues Taken Five Building Projects Long Time Seven Average Accepted Approval Seven Years Funding

Author:I. M. Pei

“To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when I realized I wasn't going to graduate in four years unless I somehow managed to glue together all the courses I'd taken. That said, I'm really glad I did it, 'cause it was really fun, and I was able to just take whatever the hell I wanted.”

Years Said Able Wanted Together Courses Fun Causes Born Hell Taken Four Summer I Realized Glad Four Years Graduates Panic Juniors Glue Candid Panic Attacks Sophomore Junior Year

Author:Ed Helms

“I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.”

Thinking Years Difficult Differences Taken Changed Months Years Ago Print 1960s

Author:William Eggleston

“When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.”

Years Kind Mean Wanted Together Film Taken Years Ago Cinema

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.”

Years Littles Stills Country Law Order Taken Too Much Granted Law And Order Taken For Granted

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.”

Years Mind Made States Lying Certain Taken Presses Radio Impression Diets Steady Distortion Misled Censored Totalitarian State Falsification

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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