Top 100 Quotes About 1999
#1. The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.
Victoria Nuland
#2. Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.
Bernie Sanders
#3. The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.
Michael Kirby
#4. From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.
Hanya Yanagihara
#5. When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
Jamie Bamber
#6. Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range anti-ship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment.
David Kay
#7. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. Morpheus, The Matrix, 1999
Susan Finerty
#8. I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.
Sam Mendes
#9. There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films.
Susan Sarandon
#10. He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.
Richard Virenque
#11. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.
Richard Louv
#12. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.
Edward Conlon
#13. We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!
Adrian Belew
#14. In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
Lee Westwood
#15. Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
John Clute
#16. From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
La India
#17. When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
David Sze
#18. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).
Donalyn Miller
#19. In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.
Chen Shui-bian
#20. As early as 1999, Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ("Bud") Selig had taken to calling the Oakland A's success "an aberration," but that was less an explanation than an excuse not to grapple with the question: how'd they do it? What was their secret?
Michael Lewis
#21. I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
Astro Teller
#22. In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
Q-Tip
#23. The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity".
~R. Alan Woods [1999]
R. Alan Woods
#24. Can you imagine any public company embracing a business model that would lead to the decline in revenue that we experienced from 1986 through 1999?
Warren Buffett
#25. People tried to test me (in 1999) and I came up with some pretty good throws. Everybody on the team calls me 'Bazooka' now. That's kind of like a nickname I gave myself.
Albert Belle
#26. The record from the Vostok core shows that CO2 levels and temperatures have varied in tandem. Current CO2 levels are unprecedented in the last 420,000 years. Credit: J.R. Petit et al, Nature, vol. 399 (1999).
Elizabeth Kolbert
#27. You probably can't be the Google of 2014 in terms of compensation or perks, but you can be like the Google of 1999 if you already have good answers about your mission and team.
Peter Thiel
#28. We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.
Jeffrey Sachs
#29. If you're hoping to party like it's 1999 because Prince told you the world was going to end in 2000, then I'm sorry to disappoint you. We're still here.
Shirley Marr
#30. The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products.
Michael Milken
#31. A well rounded education never hurt anyone".
~R. Alan Woods [1999]
R. Alan Woods
#32. Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.
Rory Bremner
#33. Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)
Hillary Clinton
#34. Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.
Kelvin Yu
#35. Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
John Mica
#36. After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable.
Andrew Mehrtens
#37. This ain't my first rodeo!".
~R. Alan Woods [1999]
R. Alan Woods
#38. I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans.
Martin Landau
#39. Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.
LaVell Edwards
#40. I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.
Tom Anderson
#41. Now Nostradamus said that the king of Terror would appear September 1999. I believe Nostradamus knew his Bible and knew what the six day theory was, and so he could put it all together.
Jack Van Impe
#42. I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
Louis Navellier
#43. In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
Al Sharpton
#44. I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
#45. When I came here in 1999, all one could hear was the sound of the guns as guns were booming all around. Today I am only hearing clapping of hands.
Narendra Modi
#46. In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.
Pete Carroll
#47. When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.
Dan O'Brien
#48. I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.
Vladimir Guerrero
#49. Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.
Gary Krist
#50. I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.
Lea Michele
#51. I wanted to be a writer as a teen ... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
Yves Behar
#52. Back then, we all thought Lever 2000 was the best because the number "2000" seemed so impressive. Were there 1999 formulas before they landed on this one? That sounds really well researched. I'm in!
Mindy Kaling
#53. I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.
Lleyton Hewitt
#54. Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.
John Updike
#55. When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.
Peter Gabriel
#56. Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)
Max Allan Collins
#57. I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.
Jeff Jordan
#58. In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
Laura Wade
#59. The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems capable of crushing all naysayers.
Paul Di Filippo
#60. I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
Jenni Rivera
#61. When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
Jim Matheson
#62. Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.
Gerhard Schroder
#63. I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.
Timothy Ferriss
#64. Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp
#65. Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. The universe is a big and lonely place. We can do with all the neighbors we can get.
Anonymous
#66. Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
Marc Andreessen
#67. You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.
James Packer
#68. Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
Burton Richter
#69. More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Norm Dicks
#70. Every movie I've made is different, but it's because I'm different. I'm not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999
Gregg Araki
#71. It was 1999 in America, he had traveled the world for three years, looking for what he didn't know, and now here he found himself: absolutely allergic to belief, nineteen years old, and totally alone.
Sunil Yapa
#72. 1997 and 1999 published the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) and the Transcendental-future Time Perspective Inventory (TFTPI).33 As
Philip G. Zimbardo
#73. In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
Bernie Sanders
#74. Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.
Steve Rifkind
#75. I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
Jack Irons
#76. I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
Bjork
#77. I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
Martin O'Malley
#78. My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
Jack Ma
#79. A tree forms itself in answer
to its place and the light.
Explain it how you will, the only
thing explainable will be
your explanation.
Sabbaths 1999 IV
Wendell Berry
#80. Cerner is a company that just celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1999.
Neal Patterson
#81. I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.
Susanna Moore
#82. I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
Clayton M Christensen
#83. I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
T. J. Miller
#84. People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).
Jim Highsmith
#85. Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996 ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.
Al Gore
#86. What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.
James Chanos
#87. It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.
Richie Benaud
#88. Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.
Susan Wojcicki
#89. Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?
Prince
#91. As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.
Robert Darnton
#92. The Trinity: One in Three, Three in One".
~R. Alan Woods [1999]
R. Alan Woods
#93. Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
Natalia Vodianova
#94. When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
George Ayittey
#95. The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
Nostradamus
#96. Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning.
Michael Ramirez
#97. You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999
Christian Parenti
#98. If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
Patricia Cornwell
#99. I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
Bill Vaughan
#100. After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.
Barack Obama
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