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“A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.”

Knows Men Way Years Said Given Realizing Talking Lord Changed Years Ago Rings Good Way X Men

Author:Ian Mckellen

“A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.”

Years Today Given Hundred Years Ago Letters Rate Plus Adultery Scarlet

Book:Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Men Years Mind Has Beens Made Political Life Is Given Opinion Principles Five Subjects Circumstances Years Ago Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Opportunist Political Opinions

Author:A. P. Herbert

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.”

Years Humans Book Used Given Human Beings Brain Years Ago Doctors Rage Teeth Organs Anthology Mischievous

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.”

Knows Years Firsts Play Given Enjoy Careers Advice Years Ago Best Advice Maradona

Author:Lionel Messi

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".”

Years Country Names Given Pay Hundred Years Ago Folks Folk Music

Author:Pete Seeger

“Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.”

Years Two Given Half Disease Years Ago Thirty Precise Motor Thirty Years Half A Year

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.”

People Ifs Years Looks Given Safe Commitment Years Ago Critics Reviews Given Up

Author:John Fante

“I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.”

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Author:Zach Condon

“The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.”

Years Values Girl Given Years Ago Prize Fingernails

Author:Beryl Bainbridge

“Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.”

Giving Years Two Ideas Given Space Exercise Degrees Hundred Years Ago Organization Infinite Seven Come Up Focused Two Years Apartment Variation Parameters Two Years Ago

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.”

Years War Hard Today Given Drug Ten Years Ago International Myth Aids War On Drugs Pretext Colombia Amnesty Amnesty International

Author:Noam Chomsky

“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.”

“The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.”

Should Years Persons Said Today Values Given Principles Ought Standards Years Ago Tradition Should Have Vote

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.”

“Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.”

Years Littles Given Laughing Taste Years Ago Hot Dull Plus Shells Eric Mermaid Peaches Bras Mammals

Book:Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, Book 1)

Source: Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, Book 1)

“I‟m going to kill her,” Francesca said to no one in particular. Which was probably a good thing, as there was no one else present. “Who are you talking to?” Hyacinth demanded. “God,” Francesca said baldly. “And I do believe I have been given divine leave to murder you.” “Hmmph,” was Hyacinth‟s response. “If it was that easy, I‟d have asked permission to eliminate half the ton years ago.” Francesca decided just then that not all of Hyacinth‟s statements required a rejoinder. In fact, few of them did.”

Ifs Years Believe Has Beens Said Facts Given Easy Half Talking Divine Particular Years Ago Decided Murder Good Things Response Statements Permission Hyacinths

Author:Julia Quinn

“I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here illegally should not be given a special pathway, a favored pathway to become permanent residents merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That they should be in line with everybody - they should be given the opportunity to get in line with everybody else but they go to the back of the line.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?”

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