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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

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

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.

I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.