This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
After my debut in 2005, I had done almost 15 films till 2008, with 'Saas Bahu and Sensex' being the last. Hence, I thought it was time to slow down.
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
I never thought we'd live in an age where we'd get to 2008's 'Iron Man,' which I think is a perfect movie.
2008 was a good - a very successful year for Volkswagen.
I believe Huckabee should have run again in 2012. Everyone was begging for him to do so. He beat Romney in 2008, and I believe he would have done it again in 2012.
Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.
2008 was a good year as 'Gaja' was a hit.
I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.
I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.
It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.
Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
In 2008, no one else would ever have believed me that we were going to make a car actually drive everywhere, all the time.
In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
In 2008, I started a sports talk show called '12 Angry Mascots.'
We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.
I just followed my gut feeling when I went to Hyderabad in 2008.
