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I'm 24 years old, and for the past three-plus years, we've been playing music for a living. It doesn't get any better than this.


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TRACY SEBASTIAN We have a better chance this year than in years past.
GREGG FARRIS It's a challenge because we're playing bigger schools, but we've been playing these schools for the ...
JOSH LILES I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last coup...
CHRIS ANSTEY We've been at it for 20-plus years, and hopefully doing it very well.
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HENRY NOWAK It takes a while for this (fungus) to get down into the soil, and they (Utah ski resorts) have only ...
HENRY NOWAK I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.
DAN ARMSTRONG Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years...
GARY CHERONE For the past 10 to 12 years I've been preparing for this position.
DR. EILEEN ELY For an item that has been continued for more than three years, any observation on what might happen ...
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CHAD HETTERMANN It certainly looks better than it has in past years.
ALAN SLATER The jam band idiom is kind of the new jazz as these kids will be growing up with this music as this ...
BOB WEIR He works hard every day at every practice. He's been nice to watch for the past three years.
CAREY WHITE TRUTH plus LOVE equals TRUE LOVE. You can't get any simpler and better explanation than this.
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE We're underperforming the nation and have been ... for the past three years. The Ohio economy is dra...
BILL LAFAYETTE For our juniors and seniors, I think playing those types of teams the past couple years helped prepa...
BO WILLIAMS We know we've been in this situation before. It seems like it's been the same story for the past thr...
GARY HAMILTON Dave had a financial plan for 10 years before it all came together.
DONNA ABBOTT In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and ha...
HENRIK IBSEN I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling c...
DANIEL BRYAN I have three girls who have been playing together for four years. The rest have played for one or tw...
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MARC MAGLIARDITI This truly has been a partnership, the past seven years, like the Beatles, the Marx brothers -- even...
ANDY HIRSCH That's the list we've been seeing for the past three to four years. These are the ones that are most...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH I'm afraid it's something we're going to have to deal with more. I think they should stay four years...
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MIKE LOVE There have been problems for decades, but it's been better in the past couple of years. One of the r...
ELMAR MAEDER For the past 12 years my life has been travelling and living away from the ones I love, and now I li...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Same three guys, right here. Same three chords right here. And we've been doing this for 35 years.
BILLY GIBBONS It only takes living together for atleast three years to begin to know another person.
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AMANDA ORTIZ Since the first of the year, people been talking about the possibility of this game. It's exciting. ...
MACK BROWN I've been doing this for 39 years, and it doesn't bother me. These kids are 20 years old. They are i...
GLENN THIEL I haven't noticed any change in him, and I've been around him for three years. I just know he's a fi...
LANCE HARRIS Visual Sciences has been acting in stealth mode for the past three years, and they by far have the m...
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BOB NEY We've been known for our depth for the past few years.
JEFF LOWELL For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another l...
DEAN KOONTZ I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three ...
BUDDY GUY I didn't intend to talk about this with you. But it is something that's been surfacing with me for t...
TERI HATCHER He's been the starting goalkeeper for three years.
DAGO LOPEZ The team?s been together for three years,
ERIC ROMAN I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in ...
CHRIS ISAAK This is for a hundred years. It's going to be an old project. We're going to get through this just f...
CAMPBELL MERCER We've been putting on the race for three years. Every year, we try to make it better, try to make it...
DOEL GONZALEZ Cricket has become the national sport again for the summer; it had been a dying sport for the past f...
BEN RUHRMUND We have played here a lot in the past couple of years. It is much better than going off to a place l...
CRAIG NELSON No one has ever gone on (to state) in the last three years. This is much better than we've done in t...
BRANDY SWAGER The tournament has been an outstanding success in the northern hemisphere for the past two years, pl...
COLIN LOVE He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.
ERIK ANDERSON You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her.
RACHEL HUNTER He'll say someone helped him. Baloney. He did it. ... It's special for the whole club. He has worked...
JACK MCKEON When I was growing up there weren't any bands who'd been around for 25 years the Rolling Stones had ...
BRIAN RITCHIE I've been getting this medication for 10 years without any problems, and it costs a few dollars a mo...
ELLEN SMITH The number of jobs (in downtown) has remained flat for the past three years.
MAUREEN PERO But the physical danger was judged to be less important than the psychological stresses. Eight human...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different...
DON CHEADLE [There were] no problems in the house before. I've been living here for 24 years now and so everythi...
MARCEL BOULET They've been there for 20-plus years. They've just decided to go ahead and take retirement.
ERNIE SLOTTAG We've accumulated more than 40 awards for F-150 over the past two years. We simply know truck custom...
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STEVE WYNN That's relatively old for a serial killer. What has this guy been doing for the last 10 or 15 years?
CLINTON VAN ZANDT I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for t...
CANELO ALVAREZ The Hatfield tragedy was a terrible event for everyone involved. Lessons have been learnt and the ra...
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DAVID OAKS They've been spending more than they get for the last couple of years. Maybe this report will be a w...
MALCOLM JONES It's been busier than in the past few years.
ALAN JUSTAD It worked for her. From the time she was three years old until now, she has accomplished a lot.
NANCY JONES I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN This is something that's been open for 40 years, 40-plus years. You have generations of racers out t...
JEANETTE GRACE Everyone on the set had been working on films for 20-plus years. I was enraptured.
ALICIA KEYS The past three years have been the most destructive in the Brazilian Amazon's history
GEORGE MONBIOT We've been doing this since we were 9 or 10 years old, ... We've been doing this for a very long tim...
KELLY ROWLAND Lindsey has been a great competitor for Council Rock North for the past four years. She has excelled...
GREG PARKER It is a long-awaited decision. We have been waiting for last three years.
ARUN KEJRIWAL I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football educatio...
GARY NEVILLE My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had.
DAVID FURNISH As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time...
CASEY SILVER I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN He's timeless. His music has been around for years.
BOB TAYLOR Over the past three years there has been a 17 percent decrease in teenage drug use.
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DAVE PELZER At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basi...
DAVE REICHERT It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm w...
DAVE GROHL I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake do...
DAVE GROHL There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. ...
DAVE GROHL My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survive...
DAVE GROHL Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
DAVE GROHL Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that'...
DAVE GROHL My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
DAVE GROHL I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
DAVE GROHL In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can d...
DAVE GROHL I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everyt...
DAVE GROHL Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
DAVE GROHL I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
DAVE GROHL When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
DAVE GROHL Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHL When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done,...
DAVE GROHL There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ...
DAVE GROHL If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
DAVE GROHL Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wal...
DAVE GROHL My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They'v...
DAVE RAMSEY You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
DAVE BARRY