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“The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.”

Years Seems Age Differences Mere Screens Smooth Blending In

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”

Thinking Years Art Done Enough Use Artist Written Waste Years Ago Method Possession Had Enough Disgusted

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Bigs Used Novel Taken Heard Serious Eating Nine Nine Years

Author:Ian Rankin

“I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.”

Years Firsts Running Valleys Uncles Colony Argentina Tracing Width

Author:Matthew Rhys

“It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.”

Knows Years Long Sometimes Hard Whole Lasts Difficult Tough Seasons Tired Focused Stay Focused Slam

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.”

Years Checks Eighteen Eighteen Years Old

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!”

Years Two Energy Perfect Class Mom Fit My Mom Two Years Two Year Olds Perfect Fit

Author:Aly Raisman

“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.”

Writing Years Littles Bits Hours Break Week Months Couple Little Bit Pace

Author:Amy Ray

“More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.”

Years Opportunity Dark Europe Unhappy Forty Unhappiness Division Communist Artificial Chapters Eastern Eastern Europe European History

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.”

Years May Whole Today Force Half Technology Economic Ten Years Ago Investment Gaps Defence Alliances Expenditures Hamper

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.”

Ifs Years Made Done Grows Sports Player Areas Increase Made It Hockey Hockey Player Playing Hockey

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.”

Years Stories Wanted Cameras Eight Telling Stories

Author:Brett Ratner

“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?”

Years Looks Term Space Risk Doors Dying Safety Miles Flying Flight Planes Airline Passengers Space Shuttle Fatality

Author:Burt Rutan

“I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.”

“I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.”

People World Years War Courses Fun Force Air Building Seven Flying Flight Around The World Vietnam Airplane Testing Seven Years Vietnam War Garage Air Force

Author:Burt Rutan

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.”

Way Years President Cutting Taxes Raises Rate Congress Obvious President Obama Earning Revenue Tax Cuts

Author:Christina Romer

“I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?”

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Author:Crystal Reed

“I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.”

Thinking Years Two Sometimes Records

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.”

World Years Looks Age Film Clear My Favorite Remarkable Frank Enchantment Scorsese

Author:David O. Russell

“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.”

Years Has Beens Stills Two Government President Wife Middle Return Honor Periods Promise My Wife East Administration Two Years Middle East I Promise Unprecedented

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.”

Years Wells Presses Incidents Aftermath

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.”

Years Two Bigs Earth Shots Years Ago Two Years Pillars Cafes Two Years Ago Budapest

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.”

World Want Years Soul Young Known Kissing Capacity Intelligent Brilliant Complaining Watson Emma Old Soul

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

Knows Years School Cities Company Teacher New York Victim Selling New York City Engineers Equipment Public School Jersey New Jersey School System Layoff Filtration

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.”

Feels Years Looks Has Beens Done Kids Situation Involved Sorry Soldier Horrific

Author:Gideon Raff

“I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.”

Years Dream Prepared Expected Wildest Dreams Mammograms

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.”

Way Years Firsts Long Results Seeing Research Years Ago Incredibles Scary Surgery Long Way Advancement Stigma Mastectomy

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.”

Years Two Book Block Writer's Block

Author:James Rollins

“I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.”

Years Enjoy Chasing

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.”

Years Different Views Focus Intellectual Performances Strategy Constant Point Of View Dialogue Developing Executives Engaging Opposing Different Points Of View

Author:Jeff Raikes

“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”

Ifs Years Two Nice Endure Broke Two Years Candlelight You Re Pretty

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.”

Years Used Stars Pieces Picks Woods Bark Stoves Kindling

Author:Jerry Reed

“Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.”

Years Form Hours Records Taxes Billions Filling

Author:Jim Ramstad

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

People Years Bigs Film Known Careers Successful Fine Exciting Paid Host Respectable Rubbish Julia American Film

Author:Joely Richardson

“A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?”

Years Courses Share Hundred Fairs Years Ago Fundamentals Composer Fair Share

Author:Johannes Rau

“A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.”

People Years Today Interest Creative Rights Heard Hundred Years Ago Stones Foundation Germany Joints Assertion Creative People Pioneering

Author:Johannes Rau

“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.”

Years Believe Kind States Sound Forget Rights Ignorance Customers Doctrine Obliged States Rights Sound Doctrine

Author:John Shelton Reed

“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

People Years Past Moving Race Groups Identity Variety Manners Southern Accents Yankees Brainwashing Brainwashed Confederate Ethnic Groups Brainwash Yankee Fans

Author:John Shelton Reed

“2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.”

“I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.”

People World Years Has Beens Country Jobs Ability Economic Worst Absolutes Crisis Ministers Australia Prime Prime Minister Steers Economic Crisis

Author:Kevin Rudd

“The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.”

Should Years Jobs Next Growth Creation Target Next Year Job Creation

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.”

People Years Lasts Five Ten Surface Five Years Mars

Author:Mary Roach

“I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.”

Feels Trying Years Has Beens Made Different Enough Strong Enjoy Teach Worry Team Concepts Athlete Coaches Strong Enough Not Worrying

Author:Melanie Roach

“I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.”

Years Firsts Moving Three Mom My Family Athlete Selfish Three Years Unselfish Time To Move On Family First

Author:Melanie Roach

“I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.”

Years Wells Born Gone Dog Training Raphael Monaco

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.”

People Want Years Bits Four Grateful Add Four Years Olympics Greedy

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.”

Years Wells Different Running Lasts Sports Enjoy Worry Shapes Last Year Going Out

Author:Paula Radcliffe

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