Alan Dale Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Dark Quotes , Years Quotes

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Years Quotes

I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

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Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Years Quotes , Taught Quotes

One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.

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I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Years Quotes

The year is dying in the night.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Night Quotes , Years Quotes

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Learning Quotes , Years Quotes

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , College Quotes , Years Quotes

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Air Quotes , Years Quotes

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Years Quotes

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

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We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Years Quotes , Age Quotes

Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Believe Quotes , Years Quotes

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

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...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Years Quotes , White Quotes