Top 1200 So Many Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

I'm not ashamed to admit that for many years, most of my fitness information came from a VHS series by MTV called ''The Grind Workout.''

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.

We've had years and years and years of compromises, and that's led to $14 trillion in debt.

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.

I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading - I was reading at the time the epic length poem "Paterson" by Williams.

General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

I have always wanted to be European champion, because it is a fantastic title and so many great boxers have held the belt over the years.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects. When you're directing something that's generally two years of your life, you have to understand that. If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline.

I've been impressed with Rick Guzman and his commitment to the residents of Aurora since I first met him many years ago.

When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

I think for the next 50 years I'm not going to be able to stop because of the light that you shine for me and so many millions of Americans.

I still wish Chelsea and all the players every success. I spent so many years connected to the club. One incident is not going to change that.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

I enjoyed six marvellous years at Bayern winning many titles, but the fact is I don't plan on playing in Germany ever again.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.

I have great relationships with the Mexican people. You've been seeing I'm winning every single poll in these primaries when they go out, when the polls come back in with the Hispanics. I have thousands of Hispanics that work for me and over the years tens of thousands that have worked for me over the years. I will tell you that the problem our country has is that our leaders are so weak - we have so many ways of getting the money to build the wall.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise where the years disappear.

Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

MMA started in the U.S. 16 years ago but not many knew about it in India. So, with my brother Sanju, we took the lead to bring it here.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.

I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.