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The first hundred years are the hardest.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Well, you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.
Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.
Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.