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On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.


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TIM MEADOWS In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
GYORGY LIGETI I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the...
BARRY LEHMER I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already e...
MARK GERAGOS I had expected a market correction of an almost 10 percent fall sometime between January and March.
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years...
JERRY ZUCKER As a result, places in the Southeast, like Atlanta, are having quite a wet time of it, and we are ge...
GLENN CARRIN The counting will be done in two phases this time. The first phase which began today will continue t...
ATANU RAHA In January 2006, it's at the highest record level [70] we have ever seen in the state of Texas. Ordi...
JAMES HULL One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliamen...
DAVID LANGE The normal early January average daily temperature is around 18 degrees with a normal high around 28...
JOE SHEEHAN In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS 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 I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrive...
JADE JAGGER The bulk of our acquisitions are finished. We are not going to acquire another 40 in the next 10 yea...
ANDRE PARKER I thought back to the O.J. Simpson trial. I would have voted him guilty. But there was no doubt that...
SIDNEY LUMET Do they think that the current defense budget will sustain Northrop Grumman as a viable competitor o...
DAN GOURE This is in spite of gasoline rebounding 10 to 15 cents in January. This also squares with the jobles...
STUART HOFFMAN I turn 34 in January next year, ... Once you're 35 you can't go to the Australasian titles any more....
LISA CARR I would expect that issue will be settled in the next five or 10 years,
MICHAEL BISHOP It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE The price action of the past 10 years shows that while Japanese investors have been sellers of forei...
BOB LYNCH If in the remaining hours, Ukraine does not sign a contract for gas, then at 10 a.m. Moscow time (07...
ALEXEI MILLER Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50...
BENOIT MANDELBROT I said a 10 second, not a 10 minute car.
VIN DIESEL When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of mi...
HARMON KILLEBREW In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
TED SHACKELFORD I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1...
CHARICE PEMPENGCO We have to hold ourselves more accountable. Two years ago, I played on a team that went 1-10 in Janu...
BRAD LUKOWICH With 10 minutes I just looked up and it was like 'ugh' for a minute. There was no rebound effort.
LATORYA FULLER Otherwise, we will be dealing with this for the next 10 years.
CHARLIE SCHAFFER I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes.
GEORGE BEST I frankly suspect the number of students who will show up in January will be more than in the next f...
JANIE FOUKE We're kind of fastening our seat belts for January. Like all health club facilities, we will be busy...
KATHIE DAVIS First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou...
CARLOS SLIM I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE I wasn't a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn't have any power at Fox - I had n...
MEGYN KELLY It will take five to 10 years for China to become a major force. We're still talking relatively smal...
JEFFREY MAXICK I finally found out in January that I was negative for everything.
CINDY ROSSITER We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.
DAVID AXELROD I think the safest prediction of all would be that January 2007 will be colder than January 2006.
DAVE PHILLIPS You make a winner when you win. I think we can have a good crack for the next two months and for the...
BENOIT ALLAIRE I've often said I'd really like to have a 1963 Chevrolet, but not one that has been driven every day...
BARRY HASKELL I felt that after 10 years it was time for a fresh approach.
GRAHAM MORRIS That was nearly 10 years ago. He's got 10 years worth of mileage on him. He doesn't have as much tre...
BILL MUSGRAVE I was an opening act for 10 years.
SHELBY LYNNE The best job I ever had was serving as chief deputy in the district attorney's office. I loved every...
GREGORY SKORDAS Japan was the worst third-quarter for the industry in 30 years. So we are hopeful January was a sign...
DAN MORRIS As for Lexus, he says, ''I'm getting involved with their new hybrid [car] . . . and I was told that ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe t...
SIA Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquitta...
STERLING K. BROWN A wise man once told me: an overnight success takes 10 years. I might not have 10 Years; I may have ...
SCOTTIE SOMERS I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little p...
JOHN GRISHAM In 10 years, I see him as being very rich and having a family. When we come back for the alumni game...
ALFRED REFT I hope it gets cold pretty quick. I'm getting calls from people in Ohio and Indiana who usually come...
DOUG DEMING There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in stream...
REED HASTINGS Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the ...
ANDY SERKIS My personal preference is that I like to think in terms of planning for the next 100 years, not the ...
HOWARD MOSCOE I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
VICTORIA PRATT He's done enough this time in and will be spelled until the end of January and brought back for the ...
JAMES ALLAN I was devastated. We'd owned that home for almost 10 years. It was horrifying.
DARLENE ROBERTS I was living in Baltimore and had a 30-minute commute, but now I live in Charlottesville, and I only...
CYNTHIA PAYNE I was living in Baltimore and had a 30-minute commute, but now I live in Charlottesville, and I only...
CYNTHIA PAYNE I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years ...
BOB GRAHAM Within the next 10 years, probably all jails will become smoke-free.
JOEY STANTON He said because she was a good sleeper before she'd cry for a few minute, I went in after 10 minutes...
CRYSTAL JASKULA I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
WARREN SPECTOR Moving has been a work in progress and will continue into January. A lot of those folks have already...
ANDREW WESSELS It?s taken a long time but I think 10 years from now, there will be a breeding pair associated with ...
CHRIS MARTIN Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your th...
KAREN JOY FOWLER I hope that I can offer a good idea. I'm told that I get a good idea every 10 years, so I'm due for ...
WAYNE SHEPPERD I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better t...
RAY BRADBURY Because a patch will not be available until January 10, 2006, there is a seven day window that attac...
ALFRED HUGER I don't know what happened over the span of the 10-minute halftime. It was like I had put 11 differe...
JENNIFER TRUMAN I predict that in 10 or 15 years, printing of certain publications such as newspaper and magazines w...
YONI STERN It will be a great opportunity for us if we can capture at least 10 per cent in the launch business ...
MADHAVAN NAIR I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it wa...
ETHEL MERMAN It will allow for a more organized understanding of the assets and liabilities of the community now ...
JACK SHANNON For the Planning & Zoning Commission, I think that the adoption of the 2005 Conservation and Develop...
ALLAN CRIBBINS If we've got 10 guys playing like that, we've got a chance to go through January, deep into February...
DEAN ELLIS The penalty still would have been up to 10 years for each charge, but it would have been classified ...
DONNA ELDER I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper repor...
JENNIFER WEINER I'm hoping based on the publicity they have been getting at least 40 percent turn out, but I don't k...
AGNES GARVIN When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing fo...
AFROJACK The biggest saltwater tide this year has now reached the province and it will last for eight days un...
HUANG QINGLIANG I've been shopping with Mike since I was a kid, and, back in January he offered me the business. I g...
MARK STUART I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And...
EDD BYRNES A person's chance for survival decreases 10 percent for every minute his/her heart is not beating no...
SCOTT DANOWSKY It was around 1963 and I was only 23 years,
BOB REED Des and I have known each other for nearly 10 years and we've always got on really well.
CAROL VORDERMAN After 10 years I know him pretty good and what he's going to do next,
CARLOS GARCIA We'll have a cut of 2 million (barrels) on the 1st of January, I don't have any doubt.
CHAKIB KHELIL I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have ...
SCOTT ADKINS We saw it coming from mid-January on, that we were seeing something quite remarkable. January was a ...
BOB WHITEWOOD People should be really happy that January was as warm as it was.
BILL SAMMLER I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
SAMM LEVINE It we get one of these in nine or 10 months, I would be as happy as can be. Consumers have no idea w...
DENNIS BONE We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are,...
DENNIS ROSS I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
ALEX FLINN It felt like a fad for 10 years, but a fad doesn't go on for 10 years. People want something new, so...
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future.
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. An excuse will not wake up early
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. Your haters gather the most at the sidelines.
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. confident: have no fans... only flames.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. low income does not mean low expectations
JOHNNIE DENT JR. God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. You came into the world to do something; So... do something!
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Hold it down until you come up
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. Always take failure as an opinion; never as an option.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
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JOHNNIE DENT JR. To be the greatest; great test.
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