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“But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Law Certain Loss Years Ago Greed Financial Excess Regulation Greedy Jungle Supervision Financial Markets Bail

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”

People Years Firsts Kind Form Millions Planets Concern Years Ago Sacred Access Obscure Shamanism Anthropologists

Author:Terence McKenna

“If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Firsts War Country Sometimes States Nations Talking Produce Years Ago Greek Historian Triggers Mixing Great Society

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."”

People Thinking Years Firsts Littles Has Beens Different Guy Actors Bits Realizing Little Bit Sitting Years Ago Tendencies Restaurants Killers

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.”

Years Firsts Made Two House Years Ago Profit Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Geoff Capes

“I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.”

Trying Years Firsts Waiting Cities New York Years Ago Tables Actresses New York City Waitress Waiting Tables

Author:Kim Dickens

“Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.”

Years Firsts Bigs Stars Fans Years Ago

Author:Dolly Parton

“Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.”

World Years Firsts Fans First Time Europe Years Ago Excited

Author:Dolly Parton

“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.”

“I used to produce years ago when I feel like. I produced myself, Bounty Killer. That was the first set. Then I did a Bounty Killer, Lexxus, Spragga Benz, Sizzla, a whole lot of artist.”

Feels Years Firsts Whole Used Artist Produce Years Ago Killers Bounty Benz

Author:Lady Saw

“Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."”

Years Firsts Parent Years Ago India Twenties Meat Vegetarianism Pizza Quaint

Author:Neal Barnard

“The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.”

Years Firsts Two War Moments Faces Week First Time Years Ago Life Changing Zone Eleven Two Weeks Ambassadors Sierra War Zones Sierra Leone

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Years Ago Prison Controversial Guantanamo Detainees

Author:Audie Cornish

“I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.”

“A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.”

Years Firsts Song Fun Walking Years Ago Originals Video Bizarre Jane Surreal Remakes Glee Very Popular Top 100

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.”

Years Firsts Shows Gone New York Grew Couple Band Grew Up Years Ago Theater Theatre Eras Concerts Jam Really Cool Port Capitol

Author:Nick Kroll

“A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my heart. That's what my doctor said." And we'd say, "Yeah, but not for breakfast." Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael's house.”

“Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.”

Years Firsts Sometimes Found Class Morning Meditation New York Couple Balance Yoga Years Ago Thank God Stressful Hooked

Author:Valentina Zelyaeva

“The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.”

Needs Writing Years Firsts Ideas Stories Might Running Risk Taught Essentials Years Ago Tendencies Sufficient Suspects Coming Back Blogging Rewriting Turnaround

Author:George Saunders

“This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.”

Men Years Firsts Humans Made Whole Order Race Teach Hell Wife Atheism Son Years Ago Bones Dust Human Race Apples Mud Snakes Another Man Cursed

Author:Charles Chilton Moore

“I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.”

Years Firsts Three Heard Events Mets Standards First Time Years Ago Brands Three Years

Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld

“There's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates and the truth of the matter is the weak and feckless policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East and all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we're not having talks anymore.”

Years Firsts Matter Moving Dies Middle Policy Arms Bears Years Ago Weak Clinton East Russia Barack Middle East Aggression Folds Awakened Georgia Crimea Feckless Old Proverb

Author:Mike Pence

“The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.”

Years Firsts Voice Heard Years Ago Animation Animated

Author:Judd Nelson

“I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.”

Years Firsts Made Together Democracy Clear Years Ago Absolutes Debate Opponents Our Time Interviews Dictator Charming Private Life Fiery Guarded Castro Time Together Our Time Together

Author:Barbara Walters

“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.”

People Years Firsts Stories America Four Changed Hundred Years Ago Originals Boat Immigrants Turkeys Pilgrim

Author:Andrew Lam

“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.”

“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.”

Want Years Firsts Book Years Ago Spenser

Author:Dave Barry

“I like to say I have Internet Immorality. From the beginning of the "internet famous" era until now, I've evolved and went with the flow of change, always changing my makeup looks, fashion, and vision. My brand has grown so fast from social media and I don't know how life would be without be logging onto MySpace for the first time 10 years ago!”

Knows Years Firsts Looks Would Be Social Vision Know How Media Fashion Internet First Time Years Ago Flow Social Media Brands Eras Makeup Immorality Logging

Author:Jeffree Star

“My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.”

Years Firsts Names Known Land Son Thousand Years Ago Israel Hills Thousand Years Jacob

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.”

Thinking World Way Feels Years Firsts Children Stills Book Fire Changed Years Ago My Children Dozen

Author:Oliver North

“I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?”

Years Firsts Wells Achievement Years Ago Lifetime Excited Awards Lifetime Achievement

Author:Michael Palin

“In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.”

Years Firsts Art Book Character Literature Century Years Ago Series Fascination Medieval Grim Discworld Reaper Grim Reaper Medieval Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.”

Knows Needs Writing Years Firsts Play Would Be Age Found Individual Views Imagine Years Ago Point Of View Fantastic Relief Signals Playwright

Author:Wallace Shawn

“My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!”

Years Firsts Guy Fun Roles First Time Years Ago Bad Guys

Author:Denzel Washington

“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.”

Years Firsts Book Earth Names Heard Six Years Ago Finished Fifty Print Publishers Seventies Publish Refusal English Speaking

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.”

Years Firsts Heart Light Eye Girl Speak Silence Hair Arms Late Years Ago Garden Wet Waste Land Hyacinths

Book:My Own Wasteland

Source: My Own Wasteland

“Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.”

Years Firsts Children Eye Age Lying Born White Youth Hair Lovers Husband Mouths Years Ago Terror Old Age Staring Necks Sixty Pillow Delirium White Hair

Author:Philip Larkin

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

Men Years Firsts Light Earth Faces Left Darkness Fire Taught Brother Years Ago Stakes Howard Roark

Author:Ayn Rand

“I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the courtroom." Taylor took a sip of her drink and grinned. This one was easy. "I vowed to hate him forever." Jeremy's brown eyes twinkled at this. "That's exactly what I said nineteen years ago, five minutes after he first walked into our dorm room.”

“I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.”

Years Mind Firsts Kind Has Beens I Can Country Remember Seeing Years Ago Moved Pops Singers Bars Holiday Nashville Inns Country Singer

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.”

World Years Mind Firsts Reason Eye Age Lasts Science Intellectual Years Ago Visible Magician Inheritance Newton Great Minds Age Of Reason Sumerians

Book:The Essential Keynes

Source: The Essential Keynes

“[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.”

Ifs Years Firsts Wells Mean Doe Stills Two Moments Easy Sides Hours Car Wall Couple Years Ago Not Sure Better Off Bricks Brake Speeding Brick Wall

Author:Hugh Laurie

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”

“todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.”

Years Firsts Today School Moon High School Years Ago Hitting Sixteen Asteroids Sophomore Sixteen Year Olds First Anniversary

Book:The Life As We Knew It Collection

Source: The Life As We Knew It Collection

“What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.”

Years Firsts Ends Happens Action Lasts Process Secret Steps Happenings Years Ago Moved Work Out Accepted Opening First Steps Ministry Diaries Involuntary

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“He leaned back for a moment to tug her shirt down her arms, with the same wicked, lovley smile that had first stolen her breath years ago.”

Years Firsts Moments Arms Years Ago Breaths Shirts Wicked Stolen

Author:Melissa Marr

“I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.”

Ifs Knows Years Firsts Use Body Hands Eye Computer Hundred Years Ago Breathe Fifty Lungs Briefcases

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.”

People Years Firsts First Time Years Ago Stranger Encounters Attempting

Book:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.”

Knows World Years Firsts Stills Country Saws First Time Years Ago Program Snow Around The World Carter Close Friends Skis Skiing

Author:Jimmy Carter

“But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.”

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