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“I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga!”

Trying Years Has Beens President Five Months Easier Six Yoga Years Ago Five Years Get Back Six Months

Author:Mike Ness

“Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.”

Years Used Five Car Years Ago Cooks Thirty Five Years Salesman Used Car Car Salesman Used Car Salesman

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“Prints can absolutely be investment pieces. I've seen prints from my collections from five years ago on the street now. It's totally possible. If the colors don't age and if the fabric is beautiful, then of course people should wear it year after year.”

People Ifs Should Years Age Beautiful Courses Five Pieces Streets Color Years Ago Investment Five Years Collections Print Fabric

Author:Thakoon Panichgul

“In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.”

Way Writing Trying Years Term Five Office Years Ago Come Up Deny Rely Five Years Addresses Episodes

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.”

Knows World Years Ideas Different Able Five Information Conversation Computer Projects Years Ago Hey Faster Five Years Hey You Summary New Information

Author:Edward Boyden

“I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.”

Years Book Light Guy Community Five Years Ago Died Five Years Affected Salt Secular Lambs Roaring Salt And Light

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?”

“Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.”

Years Five New York Tvs Internet Years Ago Critics Radio Five Years Blogs New York Times

Author:Joe Buck

“We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."”

Years Has Beens Five Years Ago Okay Insane Granted Five Years Miraculous

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.”

Years Children Five Years Ago Accepted Five Years Seventies

Author:Alice Mattison

“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.”

People Years Two Three Process Millions Five Building Paper Years Ago Enormous Five Years Reviews Site Vogue Portfolios

Author:Franca Sozzani

“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.”

Years Shows Sides Five Crime Perception Years Ago Illness Mental Illness Cooks Five Years Innovative Mandates Leading Ladies

Author:Eric McCormack

“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.”

Ifs Years Different Sometimes Moving Community Poverty Five Easier Racism Years Ago Who You Are Terror Thirty Five Years Immigrants Target Lgbt Community Centers

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.”

“I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.”

Years Remember Sports Interest Five Fans Huge Years Ago Radio Five Years Bowls Super Bowl Sports Fan Talk Radio Minutiae

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.”

“Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?”

Years Ends Laughing Five Please Years Ago Five Years Guts Pie Email American Pie

Book:JPod

Source: JPod

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

Years Persons Different Facts Happens Next Change Five Personality Years Ago Personal Growth Things Happen Five Years Tonight Making Changes Being Different I've Changed People Changing

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

“Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.”

Thinking Years Stills Ideas Sometimes Found Five Taught Discovery Years Ago Deeper Five Years Journal Penetrate Keeping A Journal

Book:The Sign of Jonas

Source: The Sign of Jonas

“I take it that's where you met Todd.' 'Yep. Almost five years ago. Can you believe it?' 'Five years! You and Todd should be the poster couple for the 'Love Waits' campaign.' Christy laughed. 'It didn't seem that long. A lot has happened during those five years. But I do agree that true love is worth the wait. I'd wait another five years for Todd if I had to. He's the only man for me. Ever.”

Ifs Men Should Years Believe Long Seems Waiting Love Is Five Happened Couple Mets Years Ago Agree Campaigns Five Years Laughed Posters True Love Is Worth The Wait Christy Miller

Author:Robin Jones Gunn

“Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.”

Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel

“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.”

“Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.”

Should Years Said Hands Half Five Please Moon Years Ago Should Have Glasses Five Years Half Moon

Book:Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa

Source: Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa

“If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations—trust me, your expression is congratulations enough.”

Source: One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.”

Knows Years Kind Reality Realizing Five Our Lives Perspective Months Years Ago Five Years Saddest

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.”

Thinking Feels Years Long Problem Realizing Hell Five Havens Solutions Years Ago Phones Rings Immigration Broke Five Years Hook Immigration Reform Amnesty

Author:Johnny Isakson

“If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.”

Ifs Years Today Five Teaching Fields Years Ago Five Years

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.”

Years Home Five Years Ago Five Years Best Times

Author:Ray Brown

“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”

Ifs Years Two War Certain Fighting Force Five Blood Military Victory Years Ago Flow Destruction Twenties France Germany Five Years Twenty Five Barbarism

Author:Edouard Daladier

“Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.”

Years Technology Economy Five Internet Years Ago Mediums Five Years

Author:Clement Mok

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