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“The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.”

Years Courses Gone Crazy Couple Years Ago Bills Clinton Inspired Barack Islands Confused Cocktails Mccain Vineyards Screwdrivers

Author:David Letterman

“In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.”

People Way Years Struggle Gone Clear Tree Circumstances Protect Years Ago Tiny Forests Parks Over It Isolated Patches Flew Tanzania Struggling To Survive

Author:Jane Goodall

“Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.”

Years Motivation Freedom Gone Years Ago Primaries

Author:Kim Jong-un

“Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.”

Years Mean Would Be Girl Gone Years Ago Tongue Stuck

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.”

Ifs Men World Years Believe Made Happens Would Be Decision Gone Years Ago Prepared International Thirty Germany Thirty Years World Power

Author:Wilhelm II

“If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.”

Ifs Years Today Gone Figures Ten Years Ago Died Cult

Book:POPism: The Warhol '60s

Source: POPism: The Warhol '60s

“Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That's true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited.”

People Ifs Years Looks Body Lasts Remember Guy Found Gone Computer Years Ago Disappear Parks Fascinating Online Maps Website

Author:Christian Finnegan

“Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.”

Years Lasts Gone Years Ago Fifty Spoken Word

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.”

People Ifs Years Persons Ideas Different Whole Used Gone Focus Special Illusion Years Ago Screens Glamorous

Author:Andy Warhol

“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.”

Needs Should Years Two Done Bigs Government Order Community Gone Five Failing Solutions Years Ago Program Should Have Crisis Democrat Reform Frank Macs Mae Corrupt Government Dodd Frank

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.”

People Years Wells Said Two Bigs Three Numbers Gone One Thing Changed Months Percent Years Ago Terrorism Terrorist Newspapers Articles Three Years Pakistan Civilians Headlines Civilian Deaths

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.”

World Years Mean Whole Past Song Process Enjoy Voice Challenges Accepting Gone Four Fields Periods Years Ago Notes Critical Around The World Range Four Years Joyful

Author:Joan Baez

“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

“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."”

“I've toyed with this idea [of Fresh Hell] for a long time. I actually wrote a feature years ago with this sort of concept in mind, and it's gone through several incarnations, and... It wasn't 'til I met Chris Ellis, who directed me in a little thing that was actually for a ride in Universal Singapore, for those of you who happen to be going to Universal Singapore.”

Years Mind Littles Long Ideas Happens Gone Hell Mets Long Time Concepts Years Ago Universal Features Little Things Incarnation Singapore

Author:Brent Spiner

“Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.”

Years Country States Today Form Gone Democracy Years Ago Police Democratic Heavy Police State Venezuela Democratization Democratic Country

Author:David Frum

“I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.”

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Author:Marco Pierre White

“The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?”

“Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.”

Years Form Song Three Left Gone Minutes Periods Musician Years Ago Moved Studios Connected Bubbles Rock N Roll Time Travel

Author:Tom Waits

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

Source: Persuasion: World Classics

“I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.”

Feels Years Heart I Can Ends Enough Care Games Chance Gone Crazy Years Ago Don't Care I Don't Care Bother Weeping Good Chance Going Crazy So Far Gone

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.”

Ifs Years Heart Age Used Lost Gone Special Years Ago Died Phones Stuck Jail Accused Life And Love Phone Calls Heart Attack Lost Ones Dearest Friend Special Friend

Author:Jim Rohn

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