#years

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#artists #because #been #fat #get

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#any #does #help #his #live

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years. ↗

— Steve Cropper

#gravitated #just #lucky #map #memphis

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#did #hip #musicians #nothing #other

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#afternoon #day #next #ourselves #thirty

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #happy #i #life #limelight

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#anthem #attorney #back #campaign #dad

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#became #chef #cooks #drink #east

After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now. ↗

— Colin Cooper

#club #conditions #downward #financial #first

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#bush #first #four #garfield #had