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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
‐‐ Cecily von Ziegesar

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.
‐‐ Jill Scott

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
‐‐ Natalie du Toit

Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.
‐‐ Robert Silverberg

Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.
‐‐ James A. Moore

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it's mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
‐‐ Bela Karolyi

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
‐‐ Caterina Murino

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
‐‐ Hal Stratton

Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.
‐‐ Nick Davies

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
‐‐ Jean Hanff Korelitz

Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.
‐‐ Jim Lee

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
‐‐ Robert Moog

Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with thin gross margins early in bull markets - and overachieved in the later phases - they couldn't do much about it.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.
‐‐ Gedde Watanabe

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.
‐‐ Twiggy

Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
‐‐ Jack Black

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
‐‐ Gail Collins

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Back in the '80s and '90s, you could hit the quarterback low, you could hit the quarterback high. You could hit him pretty much late.
‐‐ Vinny Testaverde

Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.
‐‐ Rick Astley

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
‐‐ John Darnielle

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
‐‐ Maria Menounos

Back in the day as a kid, I was really drawn to the Hulk because it just felt so human and was probably one of the first stories that I felt emotionally invested in and not just thought it was really cool. You really feel for that person and put yourself in that situation.
‐‐ Cress Williams

Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
‐‐ George Takei

Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
‐‐ Flavor Flav

Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
‐‐ Danai Gurira

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other.
‐‐ Adam Richman

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
‐‐ Mr. T

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
‐‐ Jam Master Jay

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.
‐‐ Jordan Knight

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
‐‐ Michael Azerrad

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.
‐‐ Raphael Saadiq

Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.
‐‐ Chris Squire

Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
‐‐ Kym Whitley