#years

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#had #hairdo #high #high school #i

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#another #been #before #begins #change

For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius. ↗

— Pablo de Sarasate

#day #genius #hours #i #me

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years. ↗

— Boy George

#i #unwelcome #years

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#any #better #i #imagine #place

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#dinosaurs #killed #like #million #overdue

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years. ↗

— Jeremy Sumpter

#feel #how #part #scary #six

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#bought #day #eleven #fiddle #first

I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all my shoes are just cheap. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

#cheap #four #got #home #i