Quotes about year
years land civilization
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. Al Gore
years goal twenties
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
years skins platforms
I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
years people age
It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years. Charles Kennedy
years ideas skulls
Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull. Charles Kettering
years way chance
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
years age christianity
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. Charles Darwin
years practice three
If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.
years four stories
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. Charles Bass
years people voting
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor. Charles Barkley
years vintage stuff
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used. Channing Tatum
years two levels
I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
years careers lucky
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old. Alanis Morissette
years lasts film
I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now. Blair Underwood
years eight trying
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really. Billy Boyd
years directors actors
All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part. Billy Bob Thornton
years two half
When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.
years knowing scripts
I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.
years ark noahs-ark
It took us 2,000 years to find Noah's ark. Do we ever find Flight 370? Bill Hemmer
years people age
Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years. Bill Hicks
years clubs idiot
I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'
years breathing able
Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free. Eckhart Tolle
years mind labels
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.
years silence alertness
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
years people messages
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other. Elie Wiesel
years sea safety
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. Edward Smith
years example occupation
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. Edward Said
years arrows envy
I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown. Edward Norton
years agency surveillance
It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year. Edward Snowden
year
We live in a semi-desert area, and every year there will be fires.
years issues oscars
Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are. Bruce Vilanch
years film bunch
I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. Bruce Campbell
years ideas watches
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.