Spent Years Quotes · Page 2

I spent eight years with Berlusconi, and I still have a good relationship with him.

— Carlo Ancelotti

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

— Chad Coleman

“I'd spent too many years acting like a spoiled child, and it was finally time to grow up.”

— Nina Lane

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!

— Luke Wilson

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

— Anohni

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it…

— Rachel Hunter

I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not…

— Andrew Solomon

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my…

— Sebastian Junger

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It…

— Lady Starlight

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could…

— Pete Seeger

I had spent so many years on 'Law & Order: UK' being a downtrodden detective standing on Hammersmith Bridge at six o'clock…

— Bradley Walsh

If I hadn't spent all those years staying home with my kids and experimenting with materials that children could use, I would…

— Ruth Asawa

“She'd spent years trying to explain herself to me (and I to her), but in the end, it had all been for…

— Pagan Kennedy

“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but…

— Adam Silvera

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

— Rosanna Arquette

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

— Paul Theroux

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

— Chris Hemsworth

“We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.”

— Nikesh Shukla

I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

— Waris Ahluwalia

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

— William Shatner

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

— Sting

“A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true”

— A.G. Riddle

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

— Virginia Madsen

“But the truth is that the only reason I could understand what I was feeling in that moment was because I had…

— Megan Miranda

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

— Mike Shinoda

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd…

— Roger Housden

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

— Jon Lovett

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit…

— John Green

“He threw his back out, which-- fair enough, I'd imagine my back would be a bit sore if I'd spent the last…

— Jack Whitehall

“I’d spent years saving for a future that was never coming to protect myself from a past that had already happened.”

— Geneen Roth

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able…

— Jane Smiley

“I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now…

— Rachel Hartman

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

— Peter Hedges

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

— Robert Bly

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

— Helen Reddy

I do not regret even for a moment that we spent all these years together. I believe we learned a lot about…

— Anonymous

Aiyana is my heart that runs around and lives outside my body. We have spent the last nine years so utterly together.…

— Rhea Pillai