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Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.
Barack Obama
Me
You
Remember
Backwards
Tough
Half
Year
Worn
Everything
Out
Tell
Ginger
Rivals
Like
Hillary
Democratic
Nomination
She
Because
Doing
Were
Years
Years Ago
Rogers
May
Just
Eight
Heels
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
Aaron Neville
Few
Pants
Running
Feel
Around
Years
Years Ago
Short
Just
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Food
You
Class
Political
Stronger
Say
Easier
Table
Able
Ten
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Know
Said
Years
Years Ago
Goal
Effective
Quicker
Reform
Get
Trying
Move
Move Forward
Vibrant
Middle
Middle Class
Capable
Create
Forward
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
Abraham Polonsky
Animal
Nice
Live
Think
Wild
Wild Animal
Side
Our
East
East Side
Would
Charley
Only
He
Picked
Columbus
Instead
Like
Learn
Boy
Years
Years Ago
Up
Jungle
America
Move
Wanted
Place
Profession
Grow
Twenty
Grow Up
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Abraham Verghese
Teacher
Me
Old
Feeling
Shoes
Out
Exact
Phrase
Mentor
His
Years
Years Ago
Same
Mouthpiece
Just
Room
Used
Moments
Using
Professor
Conscious
I am a Gobot junkie, and I pitched the Gobots movie as an animated movie a few years ago, and we're trying to work something out now that the rights are cleared. But that's my dream project, besides 'The Goldbergs' - doing a Gobots movie.
Adam F. Goldberg
Work
Rights
Few
Project
Out
Dream
Besides
Something
Animated
Cleared
Am
Doing
Years
Years Ago
Trying
Movie
Now
We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.
Adam Riess
Time
Dark
Long
Long Time
Energy
Faster
Universe
Colleagues
About
Percent
Seems
Mysterious
Stuff
Accelerate
Make
Known
Attributed
Make Up
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Up
Expanding
Expected
Which
Now
I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.
Adam Scott
Memory
Police
Long
Guilty
Run
Dream
Horrible
Totally
Remembering
Recurring
Faint
Like
Sort
Because
Years
Years Ago
Years And Years
Did
Just
Where
Thing
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
Adoniram Judson
Fire
First
Our
Indeed
Diminishes
East
Object
Attachment
Missionary
Does
Always
Were
Years
Years Ago
Closer
Six
Different
Happen
Acquaintance
Preference
Views
Star
Set
A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'
Aimee Mullins
Type
Back
Results
Had
Most
Likely
Couple
Couple Of Years Ago
Anonymous
Said
Came
Years
Sprinter
Years Ago
Done
Sequencing
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. 'What? They'll grow mold like this!' they said. People who do things properly apparently make a dedicated manuscript room, where they can control humidity.
Akira Toriyama
Work
People
Control
Saw
Charge
Properly
Had
Pick
Like
Make
Piled
Said
Came
Exhibition
Were
Years
Years Ago
Up
Shocked
Where
Room
Them
Mold
Dedicated
Who
Apparently
Manuscript
Manuscripts
Garage
Grow
Things
Number
Humidity
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
Alan Arkin
Music
Time
Son
Theatre
Dark
Mother
Wait
City
See
Emotional
New
Until
She
Hall
Got
Least
Real
Years
Years Ago
Heard
Up
Person
Did
York
Stood
Screamed
New York
Screaming
Movie
Planet
Radio
Now
Last
Last Time
Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.
Alan Cheuse
Morning
Book
Sky
Made
Few
Results
Devastating
Red
County
Dublin
His
Years
Years Ago
Debut
Committed
Where
Former
Paul
Century
Farmer
Novelist
Set
Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
Alan Hansen
Extraordinary
France
Potentially
Argentina
Could
He
Years
Years Ago
Goal
Against
Four
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.
Alan Kay
Together
Problem
World
Agriculture
Invent
Gathering
Back
Way
Hunting
Would
Find
Something
Could
Put
Prosper
Like
Years
Years Ago
Cultures
Worked
Businesses
Companies
Deep
I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
Alan Zweibel
Me
History
Comedy
Own
One-Man
My Own
Couple
Couple Of Years Ago
Years
Years Ago
Festival
Aspen
Used
Show
I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.
Alana Stewart
Me
Problems
Daughter
First
Sick
High
Born
Seemed
Recover
Never
Had
He
Became
Always
Got
Been
Years
Years Ago
Very
Fever
Any
After
Energetic
Pregnant
Then
Sean
Serious
Away
Medical
Right
Right Away
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
Albert J. Nock
Me
Jews
Folks
Someone
True
Like
Because
Were
Years
Years Ago
Replied
Disliked
Asked
Certainly
Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Winter
Those
About
Betrayed
Guy
Bear
Attacked
Except
Drives
He
Glass
Dead
Known
Said
Real
Years
Years Ago
Existed
Conditions
Left
Very
Survive
Hugh
Human
Little
To Survive
Really
We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Today
You
Together
Vision
Free
Live
Side
Would
Would-Be
Direction
Poland
Without
Years
Years Ago
Led
Did
Same
Which
Us
Stand
Your
Doubts
Twenty-Five
Right
Right Direction
My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Good
President
State
States
Visit
Ten
Good Shape
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Shape
Poland
Message
Am
Coming
Years
Years Ago
Than
American
Different
Which
Much
American President
United
United States
Here
Last
Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.
Alex Honnold
Walls
Free
Long
Partner
Big
Seven
Way
Scale
Soloing
Gear
Dreamed
Purest
Seemed
Could
Never
Adventure
Like
Most
Because
Felt
Without
Climbing
Years
Years Ago
Did
Yosemite
Grand
Rope
Hard
Profession
Elegant
Routes
Started
I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of my van to include solar panels and a battery that powers LEDs for lighting and allows me to charge my phone and laptop.
Alex Honnold
Me
Appreciation
Interior
Phone
Solar
Power
Few
Live
Solar Panels
Battery
Out
Charge
Van
Gives
Lighting
Powers
First-Hand
Years
Years Ago
Which
Laptop
Include
Rebuilt
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
Alex Shoumatoff
Nature
Since
Around
Got
Been
Years
Years Ago
Ended
Which
Right
Million
Million Years
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it's just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
Alex Tabarrok
Impossible
Think
Too
Our
Minds
Complex
Television
Intricate
Television Show
Television Shows
Plots
Boring
More
Almost
Involved
Stimulating
Been
Years
Years Ago
Up
Than
Modern
Going
Just
Much
Used
Show
Reason
Shows
Watch
When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the complete package: incredibly smart, incredibly witty, strong but emotionally vulnerable, passionate to a fault - and, well, the Scottish accent doesn't hurt! I actually stopped reading at several points to swoon over something he said... he's really that good.
Alexandra Bracken
Good
Hurt
Fault
Strong
Smart
First
Reading
Few
Incredibly
Complete
Several
Find
Outlander
Something
Points
Emotionally
He
Over
Well
Accent
Read
Vulnerable
Said
Witty
Passionate
Years
Years Ago
Scottish
Shocked
Stopped
Jamie
Package
Really
Actually
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