Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 16

• All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

  Timothy Findley

  Dark, Long Ago, Nurse

  Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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• People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

  Laurie Colwin

  Two, Long, People

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• If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

  Mike Myers

  Should Have, Careers, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Father, Issues, Long

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

  Andrew Stanton

  Book, Long, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse

  Angus Young

  Mean, Long, Room Service

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• It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

  Nic Sheff

  Long, Car, Lost

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, Next Day

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

  Nick Mancuso

  Sadness, Home, Long

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• Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Race

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• A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.

  Quint Studer

  Long, People, Forever

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• I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

  Fred Durst

  Long, Predicting The Future, Long Time

  "Fred Durst Digs Wes Borland's New Band But Still Wants To Get Back To Bizkit" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2007.

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• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

  Ward Churchill

  Should Have, Long, People

  Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003.

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• A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Hurt, Sex, Thinking

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• I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Long, Exciting, Gave Up

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• I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Children, Long, Inuit

  Address to the Empire Club and the Royal Commonwealth Society, June 26, 1996.

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• One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

  Roy Barnes

  Law, Long, People

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• I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.

  Serena Williams

  Fun, Design Process, Long

  Source: wwd.com

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• One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't necessarily mean you get to be with them.

  Miranda Kenneally

  Love, Mean, Thinking

  Miranda Kenneally (2011). “Catching Jordan”, p.263, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Thinking, Long, Majority

  "Brazil rejects Bush move on climate change talks". Interview with John Vidal and Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

  Bill Walton

  Get Well, Health, Long

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• This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, Games, Play

  Song: Albert Hall Interview

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• You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.

  Chill Wills

  Long, Rich, Shots

  "Fictional character: Uncle Bawley". "Giant", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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