Adrian Tomine Quotes, Black And White Quotes, Years Quotes

Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Years Quotes

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Years Quotes , Water Quotes

Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Average Quotes , Years Quotes

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Race Quotes , Years Quotes

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Pain Quotes , Years Quotes

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Love Quotes , Years Quotes

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

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Tags : Al Michaels Quotes , Running Quotes , Years Quotes

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

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Tags : Al Jarreau Quotes , Song Quotes , Years Quotes

We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Years Quotes , Three Quotes

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Determination Quotes , Years Quotes

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Believe Quotes , Years Quotes

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

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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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

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Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Writing Quotes , Years Quotes

Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Lying Quotes , Years Quotes

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Average Quotes , Years Quotes

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Eight Quotes , Years Quotes