“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!” YearsCareWantedMotherDifficultGrowingHairYears AgoLet MeSticksCurlsPerms Author:Chloe Sevigny
“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.” WorldYearsSaidReasonWould BeAbleNextDifficultNaturalPlanetsDegreesYears AgoDecadesArguingGlobal WarmingQuartersEquilibriumVariability Author:James Hansen
“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.” IfsWorldFeelsYearsDoneWould BeDifficultCommunityChurchReligiousViolenceGroupsGayMembersYears AgoOrganizationTouchingOur CommunityGay Community Author:Troy Perry
“I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.” ThinkingWritingYearsHas BeensTwoDifficultHundredYears AgoContinuum Author:Jeanette Winterson
“It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.” PeopleYearsReasonTogetherDifficultFiveMinutesYears AgoNew YearFive MinutesYears Together Author:Ray Liotta
“I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.” YearsProblemDifficultMiddleTenEuropeYears AgoChinaEastEnjoyedMiddle East Author:I. M. Pei
“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.” ThinkingYearsDifficultDifferencesTakenChangedMonthsYears AgoPrint1960s Author:William Eggleston
“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.” IfsYearsKindCharacterWould BeFacesChoicesGrowsFeltEasyDifficultGrowing UpPathEnvironmentFiguresNeededYears AgoComplicatedGreat MenCompellingComplicationRight PathColossalCausalitySuperman Movie Author:Charles Roven
“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsTodayAmericaDifficultMiddleCenturyMovementJudgingStandardsYears AgoCatholicRejectedProtestants19th Century Author:Steve King
“10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.” WantYearsEnoughBigsWould BeProcessDifficultDealsFiguresHugeIntegrityApproachPercentYears AgoGoldAlbumsConsiderationAwardsBig DealCautiousSellersBest SellersHuge Changes Author:Cary Sherman
“I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.” ThinkingYearsKindMeanBigsChoicesDifficultCareersTakenBecomingYears AgoRecklessMusic BusinessBecoming MorePiracyCareers Choices Author:Cliff Martinez
“I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.” NeedsYearsMindHumansDifficultMy OwnForgetLevelsStrangeBrotherMetsConcernConcernedYears AgoFundamentalsGenuineHuman MindBrothers And SistersForget ItGenuine ConcernDifficult Experiences Author:Dalai Lama
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.” KnowsYearsStatesDifficultGrowthEconomyEconomicExampleEuropeYears AgoWeakDollarsRateZoneTiedCurrencyArgentinaParameters Author:Vladimir Putin
“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.” WayYearsMadeTwoFactsTogetherFormDifficultRealizingMemoriesPartyOur LivesAdventureYears AgoArmyTwentiesThirtyTwo YearsEpisodesObscureOur MemoriesThirty YearsLumps Author:Vaclav Havel
“Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?” YearsChildrenImportantHomeCareMotherDifficultWiseYears AgoWittyOffendedRaising ChildrenWeasleyMolly Weasley Author:J. K. Rowling