#years

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

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Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#been #career #during #every #false

Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

#dell #down #down the road #like #model

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#books #couple #divided #life #music

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#biggest #career #delivered #gymnastics #had

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#contempt #court #dagger #five #give

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#i #know #lot #now #probably

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#assailed #ears #government #government officials #headlong

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. ↗

— Bobby Jones

#many #me #new #nothing #nothing new