#year

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#chicago #died #father #him #i

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#around #back #children #feel #gay

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. ↗

— Elton John

#doing #got #i #just #know

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. ↗

— Elton John

#david #eight #furnish #i #now

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. ↗

— Lara St. John

#canada #general #government #many #massively

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#basically #because #began #bodies #contribute

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#been #dealing #i #nearly #reactive

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#four #happily #hated #i #know

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during