“[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.” YearsHas BeensFilmYears AgoAustraliaGreat Film Author:Denzel Washington
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“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
“I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.” YearsLongProcessStageYears AgoTapeRehearsal Author:Denzel Washington
“When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a lot more of that.I don't believe - maybe it was for a time. But I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm there to encourage them.” PeopleYearsBelieveHeartFatherMy HeartYears AgoDon't BelieveBackgroundsSouthernBaptistsSouthern Baptist Author:Joel Osteen
“Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.” WayYearsTodayDoubtPlayerYears AgoFantasticPianoPerformingNo DoubtAdmirationFavouriteArthurPianist Author:Richard Clayderman
“Years ago, while being in an airport in Australia, I happened to meet with David Helfgott. I knew that he was a bit fond of me and I was personally a fan of him. We were so happy to meet and hug and we had a very warm conversation together. Since that time.... about 20 years ago, I have not meet him again. I think that he is a very good pianist !” ThinkingYearsTogetherBitsHappenedFansConversationYears AgoVery GoodWarmAustraliaHugAirportsPianist Author:Richard Clayderman
“The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.” IfsYearsLastsPresidentMemoriesCapacityYears AgoRussiaMinistersJapanPrimeLast TimePrime Minister Author:Vladimir Putin
“Everything that we [with Shindzo Abe] are talking about has come to us as a result of the events of 70 years ago. In some way or other, during these 70 years we have been involved in some kind of dialogue on the issue, and that includes the conclusion of a peace treaty.” WayYearsKindHas BeensResultsTalkingIssuesEventsInvolvedYears AgoDialogueConclusionTreatiesAbePeace Treaties Author:Vladimir Putin
“At some point a few years ago Japan unilaterally stopped those talks and broke off contacts with us. It was not we who broke off contacts with Japan, it was the Japanese side that broke off contacts with us.” YearsSidesYears AgoContactBrokeJapan Author:Vladimir Putin
“I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.” YearsBreakSittingYears AgoValleysSitting AroundValley Forge Author:Don Rickles
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his message was "hope and change." People wanted change, for good reasons, and they wanted hope. Disillusioned with what took place, they turned to someone else who was offering hope and change. When they're disillusioned with that, it depends on what activists and others do.” PeopleYearsReasonWantedRememberCoursesDependsTrumpMessagesYears AgoEightActivistOfferingDisillusionedHope And Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“Ten years ago if you would have told me that Mrs. Clinton would be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, I'd have never believed you. Her only qualifications for office are that she's Mr. Clinton's partner. And what does that mean? The two of them stand for dishonesty and corruption.” IfsYearsMeanDoeTwoWould BeTenOfficeYears AgoDemocraticClintonCorruptionPartnersDishonestyQualificationsNominations Author:Jackie Mason
“This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.” YearsMadeWantedChoicesSpeakCreatingYears AgoMagazinesItalianVogue Author:Franca Sozzani
“When we launched our [ Vogue] site around five years ago, I had already started this process on paper. We are now building an enormous portfolio of photos, we've uploaded two million photos and we have three people that review them.” PeopleYearsTwoThreeProcessMillionsFiveBuildingPaperYears AgoEnormousFive YearsReviewsSiteVoguePortfolios Author:Franca Sozzani
“Brad Wright, who created Grant MacLaren, had me in mind. We'd actually worked together 20 years ago. He wrote an episode of The Outer Limits that I was in in '96 or '95? So we'd been aware of each other for years. I'd lived in Vancouver off and on, where he's based. And it just came to me, and I'm always looking for something different. Perception was a different show than Will & Grace.” YearsMindDifferentShowsTogetherGraceLimitsPerceptionYears AgoGrantsEpisodesBradVancouverDifferent PerceptionsOuter Limits Author:Eric McCormack
“Rachael Leigh Cook was my leading lady. She was awesome. We loved the show [Perception ]. Again, it was more of a TNT show, because there were crimes that got solved, which [going] back five years ago, was a mandate. But there was something innovative about the mental illness side of it.” YearsShowsSidesFiveCrimePerceptionYears AgoIllnessMental IllnessCooksFive YearsInnovativeMandatesLeading Ladies Author:Eric McCormack
“I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.” ThinkingYearsWellsSaidNew YorkKingsYears AgoAccidentsRan Author:Kathy Bates
“You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.” PeopleYearsRolesStudentsGoes OnMetsYears AgoFierceComing BackYaleAngela Author:Kathy Bates
“Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows.” ThinkingYearsStatesDoneShowsLosesAnimalUnitedUnited StatesMagicLateYears AgoSpreadErasGoing AwayReignVegasLas VegasNudityVenuesCirque Du Soleil Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Frank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years ago. He's just completing an edition of one of the most significant scrolls for Biblical studies, the Book of Samuel from the Dead Sea Scrolls.” YearsBookStudySeaYears AgoCrossesSignificantScholarFrankBiblicalCompleting Author:Hershel Shanks
“[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveChildrenTwoStuffYears AgoSkinsTwo ThingsPopularityTabloidsHardened Author:George Michael
“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.” YearsBookCountryFoundLeftSpeakUnderstandingDarkCitiesBoysWrittenCrazyNew YorkYears AgoBostonCopingBeing CrazyAnti SemitismAnti Semitic Author:Nat Hentoff
“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.” YearsBookLeftSpeakNumbersBoysWrittenNew YorkYears AgoPassagesBostonRiteRite Of Passage Author:Nat Hentoff
“I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.” YearsHouseFireWifeMetsYears AgoMy WifeIslands Author:Nat Hentoff
“And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.” YearsValuesClassFiveFourMiddleHundredYears AgoMiddle Class Author:Malcolm X
“Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.” YearsFactsYears AgoVeteranNew Yorkers Author:Nat Hentoff
“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.” PeopleYearsMaySaidOrderActingCasesWorryCuttingCarPossibilityYears AgoThirdsBiggerIraqDebateGenuineBreadSecureGasAfghanistanDozenInvasionShrinkingInsistingPetrol Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Now people are worried not about the prospects of buying new things, but about how to pay for the things they bought yesterday, a year ago or years before. It is, as Americans like to say, "a wholly different kind of ball-game".” PeopleYearsKindDifferentGamesPayYears AgoBallsYesterdayWorriedBuyingDifferent KindsNew ThingsProspectsBall Games Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.” YearsHeartChildrenTodayMotherAsksFoundNovelWifeRiskResearchYears AgoStrangerMy ChildrenOverwhelmingRelevantSeventiesConsumedNightingalesWives And Mothers Author:Megan Chance
“A couple of years ago, my wife, Erica, and I were getting our daughter ready for school and an image of President [Barack] Obama was on one of the morning shows. And I said, oh, look, Carina, there's the president. You can be president one day. And she said, right away, that's for boys. And so right away I said, oh, no, you can be a doctor. You can be a lawyer. You can be anything you want. You can be president.” WantYearsLooksSaidShowsSchoolPresidentBoysMorningWifeReadyCoupleOne DayDaughterYears AgoDoctorsMy WifeLawyerBarackPresident Barack ObamaOur Daughter Author:Julian Castro
“It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."” YearsStatesPoliticalForceFeltUnitedUnited StatesStandardsYears AgoScientistFamiliarArchitectAcademicMainstreamAmerican PoliticsScholarshipProminent Author:Noam Chomsky
“Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).” YearsStatesReasonYears AgoNotionUniversityResistanceHeightEngagedProtestUneasy Author:Noam Chomsky
“Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.” YearsHas BeensCountryFactsSocialCitiesYears AgoDemocraticCapitalistCrashAnarchistMayorsIcelandNordic Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsChildrenMightTodayPresidentSeeingYears AgoBasesTragedySyriaDay To DayVividPenetrateBombingAftermath Author:Barack Obama
“The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce, the first place he went was Caterpillar. I don't think he's forgotten, and the labor movement didn't react. Even radical labor historians didn't remember. It was only 15 years ago, after all, but that's a real triumph of propaganda in many ways.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsKindRealShowsRememberCommunityInterestingSupportMovementYears AgoLaborUnionsForgottenRadicalBarackTriumphPropagandaChicagoHistorianSolidarityWorkforceCaterpillarsOrganizerLabor Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“The people you might lose are the people who look at a marquee and are like, "Oh, John Wesley Harding is playing. I went to see him play 20 years ago." But if they see Wesley Stace, they might make absolutely no link between those two things at all.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksTwoPlayMightLosesYears AgoTwo ThingsLinksMarqueeHarding Author:John Wesley Harding
“For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.” YearsBelieveHeartYoungAsksPresidentChanceAbilityYears AgoAskingFinalsEightYoung At Heart Book:Farewell Speeches Source: Farewell Speeches
“[Donald] Trump I've known because we cut ribbons together at golf courses and that sort of thing. He's a pleasant guy when you're with him. I've played golf with him twice, oh, probably 10, 15 years ago.” YearsTogetherGuyCoursesKnownCuttingTrumpYears AgoGolfPleasantGolf CourseRibbons Author:Michael Bloomberg
“If I remember, Russia, 20 or 30 years ago, you'd get shot trying to leave. Today, Russian tourists are all over the world. You have Russian oligarchs with big yachts all over the world.” IfsWorldTryingYearsBigsTodayRememberShotsYears AgoRussiaTouristsYacht Author:Michael Bloomberg
“If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.” IfsKnowsYearsLittlesSaidStillsProblemLastsBitsBlackClassLittle BitYears AgoFolksDiscussionHigh Class Author:Barack Obama
“What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.” YearsCommunicationYears AgoPatterns Author:Simon Sinek
“Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.” YearsHumansEyeFoundModernEvidenceYears AgoWindow Author:Noam Chomsky
“We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.” YearsHumansMayHas BeensIdeasMatterBigsLastsOur LivesOceanYears AgoDestroyedAssetsResilient Author:Sylvia Earle
“On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.” PeopleWantYearsKindMadeWarCountryStatesGovernmentHappensUnitedLeaderUnited StatesProgressMajorsWeaponsYears AgoSouthInternationalNuclearThings HappenMade ItOfficialsFiftyNuclear WeaponsPersistKoreaNorth KoreaOutcastSouth KoreaCeasefire Author:Jimmy Carter
“I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.” YearsYears AgoThirtyThirty YearsIntrospective Author:Jimmy Carter
“I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.” YearsCountryAmericaEvidenceYears AgoDevastation Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too.” WantYearsFirstsBookYears AgoSpenser Author:Dave Barry
“More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.” PeopleNeedsYearsAmericaNationsImaginationGreaterAwarenessConcernYears AgoCrisisRaisedMathFiftyLackingGreater GoodMath EducationEducation In AmericaSputnik Author:Katherine Paterson