#ago

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #better #better off #dollars #off

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#any #attention #bad #closed #deal

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100. ↗

— Michael Rosenbaum

#chicago #classic #collect #donkey #duran

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#divorce #easier #fifty #hard #less

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#ago #dried #everyone #few #impending

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#chicago #earnest #ernest #frank #man

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college. ↗

— Steve Albini

#college #go #i #moved

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#barely #been #cases #companies #four

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim. ↗

— Mark Warkentin

#ago #beat #chance #couple #dawned