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“I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.”

People Years Looks Said Hard Teaching Years Ago Drawing

Author:David Hockney

“Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.”

Thinking Years Long Said Hard Three Couple Hundred Years Ago Connections Candidates Three Years Hiring Linkedin

Author:Kris Dunn

“Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.”

“One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now."”

People Years Wells Children Said Problem Kids America Courses Huge Racism Areas Years Ago They Said Asian Funny Things Latino Central America

Author:Rafe Esquith

“Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'”

Knows Years Said Moments Girl Realizing Taken Subjects Years Ago England Pity Max Knowledgeable Archaeology Pottery Prehistoric

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'”

Source: Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes

“The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.”

Giving Years Said Stories Remember Used Reading Four Son Truth Is Years Ago My Son Four Years Foxes Holmes Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.”

Writing Years Said Done Energy Tvs Years Ago Collecting

Author:Dan Harmon

“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.”

“Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.”

Years Said Politician Years Ago Vote Officials Voters

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

“Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'”

“Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now...? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually.”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Facts Wife Years Ago Eight My Wife Hey Restaurants Pot Mates Waiter

Author:Nick Frost

“Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?”

“It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.”

Knows Years Said Sports Sound Heard Disease Tough Years Ago Madness Blessed Hey Fortunate Nba Fanatics Sports Fan Espn Getting Fired

Author:Dick Vitale

“You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."”

“I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.”

Knows Years Said Play Character Remember Certain Roles Example Six Years Ago My Family Instinct Guts Remember When Gut Instinct

Author:John Noble

“My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'”

Ifs Years Kind Said I Can Goal Careers Five Plans One Day Years Ago Agents Five Years

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.”

Way Years Wells Said Stories Audience Heard Smart Years Ago Intelligent Assuming Going Away Really Smart Smart Man

Author:Veena Sud

“I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.”

Years Said Together Known Doors Ready Couple Years Ago Blessed Grateful Rolling

Author:V. Bozeman

“I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into the supermarket and get 12 drumsticks. Years ago you couldn't do that. So I was sucking on the neck for two years. My mother told me it was the leg, and I believed it. I went to my father and said, Why is my leg always cockeyed? He said, The bird has arthritis.”

Years Wells Said Two Kids Today Wanted Remember Mother Father Four Bird Years Ago Legs Necks Two Years Supermarkets Arthritis Drumsticks

Author:Pat Cooper

“I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'”

Years Kind Said Play Facts Evil Millions Years Ago Asking Witch Impressed Insulted Faye Supergirl

Author:Dolly Parton

“The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now.”

Years Said Two Would Be Used Fighting Weapons Years Ago Irony Two Years Chemicals Syria Isis Assad Chemical Weapons Two Years Ago

Author:Rand Paul

“Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.”

Giving Years Said Spirit Jesus Teaching Years Ago Physics Quantum Particles Quantum Physics

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.”

“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.”

People Years Children Made Said I Can Remember Three Four Minutes Goes On Reader Ten Conversation Pages Years Ago Memoir Dialogue Ethical Sixty Small Child Pact

Author:Paul Auster

“I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?”

Trying Years Said New York Mets Directors Years Ago Theater Moved Distance Extraordinary Everyday Myth Admire Paris Interviews Capture Peter Amazed Brooks Closeness

Author:Paul Auster

“Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mind Said Done Moving Sound Years Ago Claims Rational Thirty Echoes Rhyme Urgent Closing Thirty Years Pun Closing Off

Author:Gregory Orr

“Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.”

Years Said Reality White Pieces Media Years Ago Males Academy

Author:Julie Delpy

“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 really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.”

Thinking Years Said Book Years Ago Blue

Author:Mark McNairy

“I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'”

Knows Years Said Two Today Values Parent Party Principles Republican Years Ago Vote Let Me Democrat South Conservative Radio Thirty Texas Grandparent Probability Thirty Years

Author:Rafael Cruz

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

Ifs Years Made Said Hard Shows Speak Simple Morning Study Groups Expression Quiet Members Years Ago Albums Interviews Japan Embarrassing Debut

Author:Seungri

“A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting." He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.”

Want Giving Years Said Real Together One Day Shots Years Ago Shooting Fake Chips Want Him My Birthday Sean

Author:Robert Greene

“A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my heart. That's what my doctor said." And we'd say, "Yeah, but not for breakfast." Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael's house.”

“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.”

People Years Wells Said Moments Reality Remember Force Challenges Wall Years Ago Exile Shrines Lama Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.”

Ifs Thinking Years Humans Wells Said Spiritual Political Sound Human Beings Clear Position Years Ago Calm Convinced Arise Realistic Compassionate Precise Lama Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."”

Ifs Want Years Said Roles Ten Years Ago Rapper Pimp Memphis

Author:Morris Chestnut

“It's the weirdest thing. Evan [Goldberg] was just telling me how weird it is that we won't be working on Sausage Party, to which I said, "Hopefully, we'll be working on Sausage Party 2." It was almost ten years ago when we came up with the idea.”

Years Said Ideas Party Ten Years Ago Hopefully Sausage

Author:Seth Rogen

“I've been involved with Berlei for almost my whole career. I actually discovered them well over 10 years ago, probably 2002 at least. My mom introduced me. She said, "Listen, you should try these bras." And I was like, "Really?" So I tried it and since then I've never worn another bra.”

Should Trying Years Wells Said Whole Careers Mom Involved Years Ago My Mom Worn Bras

Author:Serena Williams

“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.”

Thinking Should Years Said Seems Would Be Christian Christ Week Share Events Produce Months Happenings Years Ago Things Happen Fulfilled Prophecy Urgency Bible Prophecy

Author:Greg Laurie

“As a matter of fact if you think about [Donald Trump press conference after visit to Mexico], that could have been may be one of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group that in the Senate some years ago passed a bill that said border security. It said thousands of new border guards to deal with the porous border. It talked about a pathway to legalization for the 11 or 12 million undocumented that live in this country.”

“About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.”

“Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.”

Years Humans Long Said Personality Years Ago Fascinated Long Ago Human Personality

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.”

Years Said Bigs Able Levels Lord Streets Drug Lows Years Ago Rate Criminals They Said Colombia Robbery Kidnapping Homicide Unbeatable Extortion

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them.”

Should Writing Years Made Said Wanted Easy Forever Years Ago Letters Iraq Made It Iran Saying Thank You

Author:Donald Trump

“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

“A couple of years ago, I went to see a production of Wicked in San Francisco with a friend of mine, one that Patty Duke was in, and he said, "Do you want to meet her?" And I said, "Yeah!" And I went backstage, and she walked out of her dressing room, looked at me, and said, "I know you." And I went, "Well, uh, yeah, I was in My Sweet Charlie." And she said, "Yeah! You were the guy in the car on the road!" And I was. It was amazing.”

Knows Want Years Wells Said Guy Rooms Car Mines Sweet Couple Years Ago Yeah Productions Wicked Dressings San Francisco Charlie Dukes Dressing Rooms

Author:Brent Spiner

“To have or not to have [chemical weapons] is a possibility, but to depend on what media says is nonsense, or to depend on some of the reports of the intelligence is nonsense and that was proven when they invaded Iraq ten years ago and they said "Iraq has stockpiles of WMD" and it was proven after the invasion that this was false ; it was fraud. So, we can't depend on what one magazine wrote.”

Years Said Media Possibility Depends Ten Weapons Years Ago Iraq Magazines Reports Nonsense Chemicals Fraud Proven They Said Invasion Wmd Chemical Weapons

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.”

Thinking Years Wells Said New York Kings Years Ago Accidents Ran

Author:Kathy Bates

“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.”

People Years May Said Order Acting Cases Worry Cutting Car Possibility Years Ago Thirds Bigger Iraq Debate Genuine Bread Secure Gas Afghanistan Dozen Invasion Shrinking Insisting Petrol

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

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