Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.

All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

Silicon Valley has been developing as a startup community for over 60-70 years. This notion that you can create something in two or five years is foolish.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

I stopped using AIM years ago - I can't remember exactly when - and so its demise shouldn't mean much to me.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.

There's a lot of opportunity on the web that you couldn't imagine some years ago. People are experimenting at a fast rate.

Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"

Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

When I was eight years old, I asked my mum, 'Mum, can I do two jobs?' And she was like, 'Absolutely!' 'Cause I'd like to act for 15 years and then direct for 15 years.'

Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago. What are we building today that will be here 800 years from now? If something like that emerged from this recession, it would help justify the hardship so many people are currently experiencing.

I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

With Pussy Riot - this was a prank! It was a brilliant, artistically gifted prank. But they didn't expect to go to prison! They were college girls who became political prisoners for two years. That makes them very similar to the people who were "just going to a protest one day" and got arrested. They had no idea they were risking the rest of their lives. Because you're never the same after you've spent two years in a gulag.

I think Diana Vreeland recognized the passion and the energy I had. I stayed at Harper's Bazaar for two years, until I met my first husband and moved on to Philadelphia in 1952. But they were incredible years - wonderful, wonderful years. But, anyway, my career sort of took off from there. I was really blessed.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

We had applied for adoption three years ago, but it was during the lockdown that I felt the void even more.

For Secret Santa a few years ago, I bought one of the lads I used to play with a block of cheese.

You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they paid 30 years of their lives because of that gesture. And you're telling me a superstar who put one fist in the air is a revolutionary? But that's the superficiality of this time.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

I was lucky enough to do a travel show, quite a few years ago, and one of the countries we visited was Japan.

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.

Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

'Black Diamond' blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I'd probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.