#years

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. ↗

— John Pople

#i #in the past #many #opportunities #over

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier. ↗

— John Pople

#back #contemplated #earlier #electronic #fundamental

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#any #aware #brought #hundred #into

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt. ↗

— Dan Rather

#criticism #his #hurt #just #justified

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#beef #called #career #director #doing

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#alliance #almost #also #between #defence

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show. ↗

— Marion Ross

#cameras #days #did #every #friday