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Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever. -- Dylan Lauren
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. -- Lisa Morton
I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting. -- Paris Hilton
I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting. -- Diane Mott Davidson
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. -- Wolfman Jack
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. -- Hedy Lamarr
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years. -- Bruce Jenner
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. -- Harriet Tubman
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. -- Gertrude Stein
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. -- Ben Bernanke
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days. -- Shelby Foote
I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years. -- Gennifer Flowers
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. -- Marina Abramovic
The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much. -- Jon Meacham
Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.' -- Chris Robinson
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted. -- Margaret Thatcher
There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. -- Alan Hovhaness
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. -- John Edward Redmond
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A. -- Charlie McDermott
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today. -- Maya Angelou
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.' -- Harold Prince
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me. -- B. B. King
I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow. -- Mattie Stepanek
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works. -- Kate Morton
All of my marriages lasted seven years. -- Elliott Erwitt
Dreaming was only nice while it lasted. -- Roddy Doyle
Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war. -- Richard Dawson
I had slumps that lasted into the winter. -- Bob Uecker
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. -- Phyllis Diller
I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. -- Nell Carter
Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys. -- Charles Goodnight
The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester. -- Peter Krause
The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being. -- Wendell Berry
My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years. -- Cathy Ladman
I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. -- James Stewart
Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30. -- Serge Ibaka
One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes. -- Bam Margera
That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest. -- Lesley Visser
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. -- Laozi
God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy -- Stephen King
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are? -- Bill Watterson
Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted. -- Sydney Pollack
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. -- Nora Ephron
He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house. -- Dennis Miller
I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun. -- James MacArthur
I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years. -- W. C. Fields
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old. -- Grace Lee Boggs
My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever. -- Charles Duke
The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds. -- John Flanagan
You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year. -- Stacy Schiff
We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other. -- Linda McCartney
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. -- Richard Courant
There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor. -- Patti Smith
... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. -- Michael Chabon
When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds. -- John Barrowman
I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear. -- David Bowie
I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone. -- Alexa Vega
For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. -- Mary Garden
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted. -- Loretta Lynn
The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers. -- Matthew of Edessa
The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did. -- Jack Vance
The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio. -- George Thorogood
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism. -- Fisher Ames
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'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity. -- Gene Luen Yang
The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. -- Paulo Coelho
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. -- Alice Hoffman
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. -- David Nicholls
Sometimes," he said after a second that lasted a million years, "things get broken. And they can't be fixed. -- Megan Hart
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. -- John Berger
I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted. -- Cate Tiernan
The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years. -- Nat Hentoff
The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. -- John Berger
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing. -- D. H. Lawrence
I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything. -- Thomas Hood
If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis. -- Paul A. Offit
Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them? -- Norman Vincent Peale
I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long. -- Bent Saether
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. -- Sargent Shriver
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance. -- Mario Andretti
It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. -- Gary Cherone
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years. -- Vanilla Ice
I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens. -- Philip Reeve
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. -- Derek Landy
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years. -- Edward Abbey
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel. -- Bertrand Russell
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. -- Terry Pratchett
Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. -- Wilhelm Frick
...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. -- Nicholas Sparks
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted. -- Ned Sublette
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades. -- Ian Bremmer
Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.. -- Nelson Mandela
nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. -- Nicholas Sparks
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years. -- Al Yankovic
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! -- Lea Thompson
I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck. -- Cher
If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through. -- Cleve Jones
A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about it.It was fun while it lasted. -- Darynda Jones
If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years. -- Mickey Mantle
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable. -- George Meredith
He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. -- Cheryl Strayed
It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun. -- John Sherman
We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. -- Richard Branson
We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. -- Uta Hagen
I think [President George W. Bush] contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap. -- Janet Macunovich
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years. -- Martin Luther
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years. -- Bruce Jenner
My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix... -- Joe
In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty. -- Luciano Benetton
Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped. -- Tony Greig
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything. -- Brian May
I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right? -- Nell Carter
When I was a kid there was a show called 'Holmes & Yo-Yo' about a robot cop. I LOVED that show and I think it only lasted like three episodes. -- Louis C. K.
The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day. -- Barton Gellman

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