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“I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.”

Years Careers Periods Lows Aspect Years Ago

Author:John Otway

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.”

Years Long Wanted Fantasy Style Periods Horror Years Ago Theme Get Back Exploring

Author:Dario Argento

“Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.”

Thinking Knows Years Would Be Next Morning Kings Periods Humorous Years Ago Unhappy Afternoon Monday Friday Gloomy Tuesday Wednesday So Sad Friday Afternoon Tuesday Morning

Author:Walt Kelly

“[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.”

Years Kind Art Artist Ability Millions Periods Late Years Ago Appreciate Appreciation Imaginative Jane Austen Quartets

Author:Denis Dutton

“Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.”

Years Purpose Results Taken Special Evolution Periods Built Years Ago Accounts Assumption Ads Fabric Hypothesis Convenient Grotesque Fantasia Tearing Apart

Author:James Bryant Conant

“One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.”

Years Wells Space Opinion Periods Hundred Years Ago Prejudice Mere Cease Impression Spots Aesthetic Vehicle Delightful Voyages Tourists Visiting Rough Times

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open." After 40 plus confirmations over a two-week period - yes, more than 40 - I became thoroughly convinced this verse was both a promise and a weapon for me. I have since used the verse hundreds of times throughout America - in all 50 states and in Washington DC - to open and close spiritual doors for the Lord.”

Years Two States America Spiritual Used House Lord Doors Week Keys Periods Promise Weapons Years Ago Convinced Shoulders Plus Verses Fifteen Two Weeks Confirmation Fifteen Years Washington Dc

Author:Dutch Sheets

“There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.”

“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

“The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.”

People Years Children Long Ideas Parent Cities Written Ought Periods Worship Years Ago Filled Property Absurd Gates Long Ago Rejected Homosexual False Gods

Author:John Shelby Spong

“There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.”

Years Believe Reason Earth Three Millions Huge Periods Years Ago Destruction Species Scales Destroyed Massive Quarters Fifth Extinction Asteroids

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.”

Years Whole Focus Periods Band Projects Late Years Ago My Favorite Versions Holiday Debut Brussels

Author:Jose James

“The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.”

Years Economic Periods Hundred Years Ago Cycles Hardship Contractions

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.”

Years Kind Long Has Beens Artist Periods Years Ago Hungry Fats Long Periods Of Time

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“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

“What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.”

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Book:Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.”

Inspirational Years Humans Mean Body Periods Spring Years Ago Seven Cells Biology Smallest Seven Years Human Body Renewal

Book:The Raw Shark Texts

Source: The Raw Shark Texts

“A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.”

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