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When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'
Heber J. Grant
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Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.
Bruce Willis
Tags: Work Best Always
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
Jackie Stewart
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
John Polkinghorne
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.


G. Willow Wilson
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.


Tryon Edwards
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.


Hilary Mantel
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
Harold Prince
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.


Max Beerbohm
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.


Richard Brautigan
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.


Imran Khan
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I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.


Francis Fukuyama
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I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.


Ron Moody
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.


Lana Del Rey
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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.


Anthony Trollope
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.


Mary Augusta Ward
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.


Nancy Gibbs
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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.


Kris Kristofferson
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In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
John E. Walker