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My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
Dean Kamen
Time
Thought
Long
Long Time
Energy
Thirty
Worry
Out
Out Of Time
Running
Years
Years Ago
Biggest
Really
Really Long Time
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Denis Kearney
Liberty
Men
Past
Thirty
Our
Ruled
Destroy
Hoped
Years
Flag
Us
I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.
Diane Farr
Work
Age
Sometimes
Old
Old Age
Thirty
Interviewing
Later
Television
Jobs
Run
TV
Ripe
Angeles
New
Around
Am
Still
Auditioning
Los
Los Angeles
However
Years
Began
Offers
Get
York
Often
Just
New York
Required
Acting
Including
Film
Film And TV
I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.
Dizzy Dean
Me
Eyes
Win
Believe
Thirty
Thirty-Five
Because
Said
Salary
Contract
Won
Sent
Cut
Games
Deserved
Cards
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan
Time
Brilliant
Father
Young
Alexander
Thirty
Everybody
Secretary
States
Constitutional
Only
He
Knows
Sure
Hamilton
His
Left
Behind
Just
Convention
Turned
United
United States
Founding
Treasury
Career
I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.
Edward M. Lerner
Time
Writing
Training
Engineer
Thirty
President
Everything
Those
High
Physicist
High-Tech
Computer
Until
Scientist
Years
Began
Senior
Hobby
Vice
Vice President
Worked
Full
Full-Time
Many
Tech
This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
Eli Wallach
You
Age
Country
Thirty
Complex
Unbelievable
About
Had
Over
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Alone
Better
Sit
Grass
Difficult
Thirty
Sprawling
Gracefully
After
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Work
Depression
Great
Anger
Age
Fight
People
Poet
Ambition
Think
Thirty
Incredible
Able
Had
Along
She
Been
Getting
Moved
Sensitive
Against
Poor
Produce
Body
Who
Her
Amount
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
Ellsworth Huntington
Journey
Made
Thirty
Hundred
States
Part
Takes
Days
Any
Turkey
Miles
Many
United
United States
Four
I've always been frightened of turning thirty.
Emily Atack
Thirty
Always
Been
Frightened
Turning
Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.
Eric Liu
You
Experience
People
Become
National
Thirty
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
States
Immigrants
Oath
Citizens
Citizenship
Someone
Week
Countries
Became
Stirring
Conference
American
Room
Organize
United
Ever
United States
Swore
Watched
Last
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook
Life
Time
Technology
Respect
Innocent
Promises
Sacrifice
Thirty
Ways
We Cannot
Exaggerated
Pursue
Years
Same
Human
Same Time
Cannot
Human Life
Forty
Forty Years
Now
Medical
Vague
Treatments
When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.
Evan Osnos
Living
Thirty
Projects
Libya
Thousand
More
Countrymen
Most
Were
Surprised
Discover
Than
Oil
Chinese
Public
Them
Turmoil
Working
Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Before
Thirty
Presidency
States
Enslavement
Abolish
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Brutal
Until
Cuba
Lincoln
Continue
Years
African
Form
Descendants
Even
United
United States
Hardly
Slavery
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Floyd Abrams
Law
Thirty
Press
Out
Know
Protective
Within
Quarter
Quarter Century
Years
Lot
Very
Public
Century
Turned
Right
Last
I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
Floyd Abrams
You
Book
Better
Problems
Down
Think
Thirty
Back
Those
Would
Some
Cases
Shape
Better Shape
Had
Over
Come
Look
Deals
Been
Years
Than
Forty
Forty Years
Serious
Now
Last
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Gaylord Nelson
Will
Power
Think
Thirty
Our
Cities
Disappear
Mass
Combustion
Because
Years
Next
Engine
Electrical
Transportation
Internal
Streets
I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
Geena Davis
School
Girl
Parents
Action
Thirty
Compliance
Find
Web
About
Web Site
Percent
Take
Schools
Learn
Passed
Years
Site
After
Title
Use
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
George A. Moore
Hope
Day
Words
Think
Thirty
Month
Thousand
Thousand Words
Written
Putting
Days
Am
Average
Right
Number
We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.
Georgie Fame
Day
Half
Thirty
Later
Month
Out
Thousand
Gear
Studios
Hour
Tracks
Were
Up
Selling
Did
Found
Copies
Two
Set
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Grace Paley
Past
Thirty
Write
Until
Any
Fiction
In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.
Greg MacGillivray
You
Director
Long
Thirty
Other
Seconds
Look
Because
Audience
Normal
Hand
Very
Getting
Controls
Movie
Shot
Shots
Twenty
Specific
Things
Last
Film has far more color shades. It's called 'bit depth' in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything.
Greg MacGillivray
You
Digital
Thirty
Everything
Bit
Shades
About
More
Color
Red
Most
Terms
Yellow
Oranges
Just
Far
Depth
Twelve
Twenty
Film
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
Gunther Schuller
Alone
Musicians
Together
Thirty
Extraordinary
Later
Those
Thousand
City
Find
Something
Could
Put
New
Days
Years
Up
York
Scrape
Orchestra
New York
New York City
Mean
If I Could
Forty
Forty Years
Whole
Twenty
Now
Things
The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
Hanya Yanagihara
Mother
Speed
Thirty
Speed Limit
Per
Above
Never
Highways
Hour
Most
Limit
Miles
Forty
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