#ago

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#ago #because #chance #cold #got

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#always #been #couple #dad #ethic

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#challenges #enforcement #excessively #fbi #focused

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#bankers #bankruptcy #became #calling #ceo

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#after #ago #autobiography #coming #couple

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#audience #because #different #differently #fifty

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. ↗

— Graham Nash

#been #critics #discouraged #i #listened

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#duty #festival #few #film #film festival

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#atmosphere #been #chemicals #condition #environmental