All Quotes

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.
‐‐ Elizabeth Peyton

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
‐‐ Douglas Engelbart

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
‐‐ Reed Hastings

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
‐‐ Charley Pride

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
‐‐ Dan Fogler

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.
‐‐ Chris Robinson

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
‐‐ Peter Riegert

In 2000, just before leaving the White House, Clinton ratcheted up military aid to Colombia. Plan Colombia, as the assistance program was called, provided billions of dollars to what was, and remains, the most repressive government in the hemisphere.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.
‐‐ Rose George

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
‐‐ Akhmad Kadyrov

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
‐‐ Gary Miller

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.
‐‐ Doc Hastings

In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
‐‐ Karen Abbott

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.
‐‐ Peter Baynham

In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
‐‐ Peter Higgs

In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.
‐‐ Joby Warrick

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.
‐‐ Stephen Baldwin

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.
‐‐ Katie Hafner

In 2002, the 2000 Engelbrecht Els wine was released in South Africa and received high ratings.
‐‐ Ernie Els

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.
‐‐ Dennis Cardoza

In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.
‐‐ Bianca Kajlich

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
‐‐ Alan Alda

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
‐‐ Janine Turner

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.
‐‐ Spencer Bachus

In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.
‐‐ Tom Hunter

In 2003, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a year later, a national ethics committee in France, said that face transplantation would be going too far. The risk of complication would far outweigh the benefits.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's.
‐‐ Norm Dicks

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.
‐‐ Russ Carnahan

In 2003, Travelex acquired Thomas Cook Financial Services. We only had use of the Thomas Cook name for five years, so I had to increase public awareness of Travelex to migrate all Cook operations over to it. It was a success.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
‐‐ Alexandra Kerry

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.
‐‐ Jerry McNerney

In 2004, I was on the West End stage in The Woman In White, and for every show I had to climb into a fat suit to play the obese Count Fosco. It was hard work, and unbearably hot, but I sailed through because I'd always kept myself fit.
‐‐ Michael Crawford

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn