#ago

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#america #few #great #just #newspapers

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#ago #big #hung #institute #out

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#act #again #ballroom #choice #church

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#ago #box #drunk #eve #i

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. ↗

— David Attenborough

#environmental #going #hope #i #i can

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#few #german #i #initially #label

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#ago #american #convey #couple #days

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties