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Years Quotes


"It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it."


"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."


"The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more."


"I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years."


"This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience."


"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."


"Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way."


"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."


"We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins."


"We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do."


"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."


"We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute."


"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."


"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."


"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."


"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."


"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."


"Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once."


"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."


"Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years."


"In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher."


"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."


"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."


"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."


"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."


"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."


"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."


"I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower."


"For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport."


"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."


"I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle."


"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."


"I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City."
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