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Year End Quotes

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy
Years, Year End, Ends
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

John Battelle
Years, Year End, Google

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

V. S. Naipaul
Years, Year End, Political
V.S. Naipaul (2010). “The Writer and the World: Essays”, p.490, Vintage

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

Eric Alterman
Years, Year End, Issues

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

Steve Albini
Years, Year End, Idiot
"Volume 14 (November 2003)" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2010.

Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

Alain de Botton
Lying, Years, Year End
"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature

Sylvia Brownrigg
Years, Year End, Mind

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

Ferran Adria
Cutting, Years, Year End

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