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The Great Gatsby
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Years Quotes

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

– Harrison Ford

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

– Henry David Thoreau

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

– Henry Rollins

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it’s all a little lower.

– Gypsy Rose Lee

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

– Henry Charles Carey

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

– Guillermo del Toro

Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.

– Gloria Trevi

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

– Gemma Ward

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

– Gay Talese

For many years I’ve been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.

– George Kotsiopoulos

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

– Gloria Stuart

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It’s become a party position.

– Grover Norquist

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

– Halsey

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

– Hans-Georg Gadamer

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

– Gunther Schuller

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

– Hermann Maier

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

– Harri Holkeri

The U.S. only has 20 billion barrels of oil in reserve. It seems as though there is no more oil around. Venezuela has 300 billion barrels of oil in reserves. Iraq has, like, 150 billion barrels of oil. Iran, close to 300 billion barrels of reserve. Oil for 200 years, of course.

– Hugo Chavez

I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

– Graham Joyce

30 years and 55 pictures – not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

– Gig Young

I’m 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.

– Hannah Kearney

I wouldn’t trade the experiences I’ve had over the past 36 years for anything.

– Gil Gerard

After 13 years, I couldn’t accept to be number two.

– Guy Lafleur

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

– Howard Rheingold

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

– Harold Coffin

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

– Harold Evans

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

– Herbie Mann

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

– Henry Adams

America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

– Henry Rollins

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

– Harry S Truman

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