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You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator. -- Joel Siegel
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. -- E. Joseph Cossman
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves. -- Tim Ferriss
Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge. -- Hiromi
There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year! -- Mark Twain
I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now. -- Amelie Mauresmo
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. -- Patrick MacGill
I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak. -- Jill Tarter
I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age. -- Kara Swisher
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago. -- Alan Jackson
Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan! -- Mary Balogh
So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new. -- Trip Hawkins
How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change? -- Geoffrey Canada
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend. -- Erin McKean
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? -- Alan Lightman
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. -- Keith Gessen

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