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Years Quotes
"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."
46
"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."
46
"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
45
"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."
45
"Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse."
45
"If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years."
45
"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
44
"It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former."
44
"The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good."
44
"It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown."
44
"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
44
"So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other."
44
"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
44
"I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has."
44
"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
44
"The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was."
43
"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."
43
"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
43
"I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!"
42
"I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about."
42
"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."
42
"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."
42
"Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years."
41
"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things."
41
"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
41
"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
40
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
40
"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
40
"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
40
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
40
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it."
40
"I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall."
40
"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
40
"I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years."
40
"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
39
"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
39
"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
39
"Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way."
39
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