I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
Umberto Eco
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I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria.
George Takei
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For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
Bill Flores
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For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.
Marc Jacobs
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I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.
Mark Foster
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I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
Eli Wallach
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People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
James Rosenquist
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The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.
David Kay
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I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.
Terry Goodkind
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What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.
Tim O'Brien
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As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
Heinrich Boll
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I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.
Lena Horne
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The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
Val McDermid
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For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
George Vecsey
BullyingHometownYearsOutGetHe
And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
Betty Hill
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I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.
Marcia Clark
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I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
Marillyn Hewson
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I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
Edward Burns
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
James Herriot
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You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
David Cassidy
YouNewOldYearsAgain
People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
Sarah Parcak
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It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.
Timothy Olyphant
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More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.
Helen Fisher
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You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
Ken Burns
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