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Years Quotes
"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."
38
"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
38
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
38
"Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once."
37
"As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer."
37
"I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower."
37
"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
37
"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
36
"I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years."
36
"We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute."
36
"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."
36
"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."
36
"For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport."
36
"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."
36
"In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
36
"I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle."
36
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
35
"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."
35
"Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs."
35
"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."
35
"I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years."
35
"It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!"
35
"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."
35
"I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!"
35
"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."
35
"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."
34
"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"
34
"And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively."
34
"It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due."
34
"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away."
34
"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
34
"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
34
"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."
34
"The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other."
34
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