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“After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.”

People Years Work Novel Plant Significant Teeth Fifty Assembly Fixing Significant Things

Author:Thomas McGuane

“If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Years Two Helping Causes Willing Citizens Fellows Bounds Phones Generosity I've Learned Hopeful Phone Calls Dig Deep Donate

Author:Jerry Lewis

“I didn't want to go there [America] at 34 years old and for people to say he's only going for the money. It's not what I'm going out there to do”

People Want Years America Going Out

Author:David Beckham

“People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.”

People Years Achieve Achievement Underestimate Overestimate

Author:Steve Pavlina

“The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.”

People Years Four Failing Authority Paint Four Years Consistently Fear Of Failing Great Author

Author:Brian Johnson

“All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.”

People Years Long Stills Long Time Seven Seven Years

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.”

People Knows Years May Shows Information Youth Spring Acquire Spring Time

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.”

People Knows Years Millions Missing Years Ago Eight Ipods

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

People Years Book Mother Four Advice Asking Finished Four Years Childbirth

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Couple Asking Retiring Right Time

Author:Tim Henman

“Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.”

People Should Years Ends Faces Difficult Forget Land Holy Authority Accepted Resistance Agreement Occupation Palestinian Sovereignty Israeli Humiliating Israeli Occupation

Author:Marwan Barghouti

“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”

People Years Has Beens Jobs Lasts Bits Growth Company Economy Week Couple Management Decent Buying Chocolate Improving Accounting Great Job Restructuring

Author:Liz Miller

“If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.”

People Ifs Years Self Government Next Struggle Determination Appeals Liberation Rejects Self Determination Solidarity Urgent Next Year Homeland Self-government New Government

Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran

“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”

“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.”

People Years Firsts Believe I Can Kids Lasts Past Crazy First Time Red Cameras Workers Aids Noses Last Time Crew Famine Ethiopia

Author:Lenny Henry

“There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.”

People Thinking Years Important Hard Willing Years Ago Fishes Core Release These Days Harvest Bass Fisherman Hard Core

Author:Philip K. Chapman

“Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.”

People Years Causes Loss Weight Miracle Killing Pills Weight Loss Obesity Overweight Leading Causes

Author:Richard Carmona

“Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.”

People Years Children Enough Play Young Years Ago

Author:Robert Bateman

“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources”

“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

“For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.”

People Years Has Beens Two Belief Nations Religious Diversity Hundred Islam Islamic Heritage

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.”

People World Years Wells Children Real Remember Grows Forget Growing Up Growing Trouble Grew Up Treats Inferiors

Author:Walt Disney

“Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A lot of times that will happen and people will confuse combinations of words. I remember a couple years ago John McCain mistakenly combined the words Vice President and Palin.”

People Years Said Happens Remember President Couple Speech Years Ago Vices Combination Vice President Delivering Mccain Palin

Author:David Letterman

“My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?”

“Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.”

People Giving Years Has Beens Helping Lasts Lost Race Successful Movement Members Institutions Dollars Fortune Worthy Billions Fifty Disloyalty

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

People Ifs Should Years Enough Kids School Jobs Company Five Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Be Good Thirty Forty Good Enough

Author:Steve Jobs

“You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.”

People Men World Years Believe Two Shows Business Company Plans Team Missing Couple Management Starting Coaches Two Things One Man Loser Senior Verge Missing It Senior Management

Author:Steve Jobs

“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.”

People Years Believe Mean Has Beens Matter Pain I Believe Religious Practice Identity Proud Be Proud Torment Observance

Author:Golda Meir

“Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.”

People Thinking Should Years Enough Pay Millions Land Taxes Income Agriculture Pennies Income Tax Sales Tax

Author:Will Rogers

“The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.”

People Years Today Five Doors Years Ago Horse Five Years Riding Locked Coming Back

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.”

People Years Looks Two Happiness Guy Found Planets Bills Gates Right Time Right Place

Author:Steve Jobs

“In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.”

People Men Years Enough Character Energy Wise Type Integrity Congress Observation Representatives Select

Author:Sam Rayburn

“I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.”

People Thinking Years Artist Chance Starting Greece Starting Over Philippines New Places New Artists

Author:Thalia

“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.”

People Years Ideas Earth Stars Alive Thousand Eternity Architecture Astronomy Plot Thousand Years Moses Geometry Pyramids Calendars Most Awesome

Author:Walter Cronkite

“When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.”

People Years Firsts May Said Jesus Nations Doors Tree Ready Return Persecution Exile Relentless Figs

Book:The Late Great Planet Earth

Source: The Late Great Planet Earth

“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.”

People World Years Firsts Sometimes Certain Teacher Childhood This World Personality Degrees Enlightenment Difficulty Structure Lifetime Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

People Ifs Way Years Country Reason Motivational Remember Dies Three Reading Loses Numbers Prove Retiring Three Years Contributing Will To Live Prove To Me

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.”

People Way Years Kind Made Sometimes Wanted Guy Felt Drink Drug Alcohol Novelty

Author:Johnny Depp

“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

People Trying Years Five Ten Years Ago Lifetime Committed Clock Score Better Now

Author:Jerry Garcia

“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.”

People Years Has Beens Matter Next Land Hills Impunity Prodigals

Book:The Last Landscape

Source: The Last Landscape

“People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.”

People Ifs Years Three Asks Women Written Fine Months Deserve Notes Phones Embarrassed Brides Three Months Acknowledgment Thank You Note Bride And Groom

Author:Ann Landers

“Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve.”

People Needs Years Doe Saws Teacher Imagine Generations Couple Humorous Management Drinking Folks Glasses Experiments Teeth Grades Nails Coke Beverages Coca Cola Sixth Grade Old Car

Author:Dave Barry

“Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.”

“Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.”

People Want Years Progress Consistent Staying Forward Progress

Author:El-P

“As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.”

People Years Different Actors Lucky Different Times

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.”

“I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.”

People Feels Years Children Opportunity Blessed Allowing Responding Landing Giddy

Author:Frank Grillo

“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.”

“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”

Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

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