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“There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.”

People Knows Years Whole Class Middle Rocks Years Ago Regard Comedian

Author:Bob Saget

“I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.”

Years Different Four Rocks Years Ago Albums Four Years Rock And Roll

Author:Paris Hilton

“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”

Years Firsts Littles Earth Three Records Progress Rocks Creatures Majors Years Ago Plant Billions Invisible Breakthrough Bacteria

Author:Robert Jastrow

“For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.”

Years Used Millions Records Five Rocks Huge Years Ago Hip Hop Pops Flying Selling Hips Five Years Hops Shelves

Author:Jacoby Shaddix

“Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.”

Years Reason Running Today Rocks Years Ago Ships Location Wrecks Magnet

Author:E. Lee Spence

“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.”

Years Done Home Can Do Modern Rocks Wall Computer Years Ago Rock N Roll Adolescence Modern Life Rock N Roll Music

Author:Russell Baker

“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.”

Years Looks Faces Next Left Realizing Boys Rocks Events Bears Years Ago Track Eight Yesterday Caves Footprint Time Capsules

Author:Werner Herzog

“I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.”

Years Form Rocks Music Is Years Ago Conservative Conclusion New Things Rock Music

Author:Rob Chapman

“I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.”

Way Years Age Rocks Years Ago Bigger Studios Budgets Hairspray

Author:Adam Shankman

“I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.”

Years Kind Two Song Three Fans Rocks Years Ago Obsessed Mentality

Author:Sebastian Bach

“We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.”

Years Rocks Mets Scene Years Ago Math Halcyon Days

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”

Inspirational Years Seems Would Be Today Audience Rocks New York Students Strange Years Ago Medicine Dance Medical Fifty Tribes Boston Festivals Atlanta Savvy Biodegradable Medical Knowledge

Author:Lewis Thomas

“All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!”

Years Two America Four Happened Minutes Rocks Happenings Hundred Years Ago Hot Hamburgers Mayflower Plymouth Plymouth Rock

Book:Middlesex: A Novel

Source: Middlesex: A Novel

“If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.”

“Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.”

People Thinking Years Kind Book Ideas Used Rocks Walking Sitting Years Ago India Hot Naked Weather All Kinds Get Away Coal Fourteen Arriving Barefoot Walking Barefoot

Author:James A. Baldwin