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This is about doing the right thing for our kids, our families, and our communities, and it should’ve been done a long time ago.
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Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
Somebody said this to me a long time ago, that other people’s pain is funny now but your pain is funny later.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
First, 1864 was a long time ago — several commentators noted that slavery was still legal when the law went into effect, that women were not allowed to vote and that Arizona was not yet a state.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
But Neuman said in a phone interview Wednesday that those conditions were a long time ago, before the Civil War when Southern states wanted to control the movement of free and enslaved Black people.
—Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
But there’s a big difference between tenants — even ones who stopped paying rent a long time ago — and squatters.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
Many already left the cinema behind a long time ago.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
One of Ford’s stories is one that was told to her a long time ago.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC) Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira return as Rick and Michonne in The Ones Who Lived, a new TV series that—once upon a time, a long time ago—was supposed to be a set of films.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
Somebody said this to me a long time ago, that other people’s pain is funny now but your pain is funny later.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
First, 1864 was a long time ago — several commentators noted that slavery was still legal when the law went into effect, that women were not allowed to vote and that Arizona was not yet a state.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
But Neuman said in a phone interview Wednesday that those conditions were a long time ago, before the Civil War when Southern states wanted to control the movement of free and enslaved Black people.
—Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
But there’s a big difference between tenants — even ones who stopped paying rent a long time ago — and squatters.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
Many already left the cinema behind a long time ago.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
One of Ford’s stories is one that was told to her a long time ago.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC) Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira return as Rick and Michonne in The Ones Who Lived, a new TV series that—once upon a time, a long time ago—was supposed to be a set of films.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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