#lasted

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#become #enough #i #lasted #long

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#athletes #because #burnt #calendar #career

Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period. ↗

— Donald Judd

#becomes #even #good #hard #lasted

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio. ↗

— George Thorogood

#classic rock #lasted #only #radio #reason

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change. ↗

— Diana Krall

#because #change #feelings #just #kinds

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester. ↗

— Peter Krause

#college #half #i #lasted #semester

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#course #i #irony #lasted #longer

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#among #anything #ask #assist #cause

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! ↗

— Lea Thompson

#brief period #desire #extreme #get #lasted

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal