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Years Quotes
"I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City."
19
"It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago."
18
"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!"
18
"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
18
"I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years."
18
"I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me."
18
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
18
"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"
18
"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."
18
"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."
18
"I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago."
18
"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."
18
"In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently."
18
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
18
"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."
18
"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."
18
"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
17
"I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else."
17
"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."
17
"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
17
"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
17
"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
17
"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."
17
"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."
17
"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
17
"Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians."
17
"The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other."
17
"The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years."
16
"I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow."
16
"I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years."
16
"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
16
"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
16
"It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due."
16
"After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone."
16
"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away."
16
"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."
16
"I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."
16
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it."
16
"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."
16
"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore."
16
"Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate."
15
"Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years."
15
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