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years trying records
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. Beck
years records always-working
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
years holocaust bells
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
years lasts songwriting
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
years important next-year
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure. Barry Ritholtz
years giving sublime
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. Barry Lopez
years lakes people
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! Babatunde Osotimehin
years house tunisia
I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings. Azzedine Alaia
years people realizing
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. B. B. King
ideas people together
I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar. Bebe Neuwirth
ideas way locked-up
Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me. Becca Fitzpatrick
ideas democracy left
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones Barry McCaffrey
ideas self endurance
For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters. B. H. Liddell Hart
ideas outside plans
We need plans and ideas from outside this committee. Larry Martin
ideas people attention
People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something. Billy Corgan
ideas giving world
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly
ideas people wish
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate. Bill Crawford
ideas easy individual
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Bhagat Singh
two half reason
Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.
two chocolate looks
You’ve got food stuck in your teeth,” Vee told Marcie. “In the crack between your two front teeth. Looks like chocolate Ex-Lax …
two evil hey
Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?
two chocolate would-be
It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.
two black singers
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
two voice guitar
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
two construction-workers matter
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers. Bill Shorten
two giving choices
There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
two firsts want
To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.