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Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I...

Quote by Erykah Badu about day, world, life, people

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Quote by Russell Baker about laughter, comedy, television

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not...

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

Quote by Drew Barrymore

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Quote by Sean Connery about bad, people

The years of the economic depression have been years of...

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about depression, peace, world

When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about parents, mother, old, olderness

If someone ever said that something wouldn't go wrong in...

If someone ever said that something wouldn't go wrong in a billion years, they said it a billion years ago.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about destiny, bad

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you, and the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

Quote by Donald O'Connor about recollection

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Quote by Roger Penrose about hope, problems, thinking, time

There was one occasion when I was very young eight years or seven years old that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

Quote by Shimon Peres about old, olderness, time

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Quote by Harry S. Truman about books, old, olderness

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a...

Quote by E. J. Pratt about poetry, night, woman, face

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count....

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Quote by Abraham Lincoln about wisdom, life, end

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at...

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Quote by Muhammad Ali about people, world, man, life

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

Quote by Willie Aames about need, god, time, love, people

When you're 19 years old, you make $1 million a year, ...

When you're 19 years old, you make $1 million a year, you've dated all the coolest people on earth, you've hung out with the coolest people on earth.

Quote by Willie Aames about earth, people, old, olderness

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about money, age, olderness

It took me seventeen years to get 3, 000 hits in baseball....

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Quote by Hank Aaron

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in...

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Quote by Hank Aaron

In the last few years I've become more reliant on the...

In the last few years I've become more reliant on the Internet for research. I'm addicted to Google.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about internet, research

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