"Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame."
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"When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period."
"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
"I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period."
"I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period."
"I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record."
"Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come."
"I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship."
"The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth."
"There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything."
"We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist."
"I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period."
"There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell."
"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time."
"One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!"
"States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies."
"The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period."
"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period."
"A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time."
"It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history."