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“Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.”

People Way Years Stills Matter Couple Thousand Findings Dollars

Author:Andrew Tobias

“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

Years Two Soul Facts Happens Hate Fighting Nations Taught Couple Thousand Ocean Years Ago Crosses Bridges Streams Continents Thousand Years Constructs Two Nations

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.”

People Thinking Might Results Effort Saws Couple Thousand Google Queries

Author:Sergey Brin

“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”

Thinking Want Years Millions Couple Thousand Smart Hundred Apes

Author:Spider Robinson

“The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.”

People World Way Space Couple Thousand Dollars Stations Weekend

Author:Alan Shepard

“A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.”

Religious Food Couple Thousand Harmony Cooking Fifty Culinary Temper Sermons Promoters Methodists

Book:Cottage Economy

Source: Cottage Economy

“I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.”

Years States Couple Civilization Thousand Western Definitions Thousand Years Western Civilization

Author:Gary Bauer

“To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.”

Ifs May Done Marriage Example Couple Thousand Ten

Book:The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

Source: The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

“I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.”

Thinking Hands Faces Actors Industry Couple Thousand Actresses Indian Pretty Face Actors And Actresses

Author:Russell Peters

“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.”

Writing Years Book Rooms Numbers Half Millions Novel Figures Couple Thousand Paper Computer Hundred Pens Occupation Solitary

Author:Neil Gaiman

“One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.”

Men Giving Years Couple Thousand Paradox One Man Thousand Years Another Man

Book:The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays

Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays

“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.”

“I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.”

Book Next Impossible Written Couple Thousand Library Written Word

Author:Tim Gunn

“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.”

People Years Ideas Reason Dream Mankind Strange Planets Couple Thousand Destruction Disappear Seats Destroying Fades Thousand Years Fade Away

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.”

People Country Happened Couple Thousand Hundred Killing Things Happen Uplifting Destroying Other Countries Haiti Philippines

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Couple Thousand Ran Afghanistan

Author:Richard Patrick

“I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes.”

Couple Thousand Clothes Dollars Ass Dumb Dumb Ass

Author:Big Sean

“The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.”

“Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?”

People Years Enough Past Childhood Couple Thousand Letters Raised Trauma Violent Mail Alcoholics

Author:Dean Koontz

“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.”

Years Humans Lines Human Beings Records Written Changed Revolution Couple Thousand Computer Draws Hundred Speed Decades Thousand Years Scientific Revolution

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn't have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.”

People Culture Understanding Couple Thousand Enlightenment Western Insane Convince Japan Enlightened Western Culture

Author:Brad Warner

“Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.”

Want Couple Thousand Lucky Ten Theater Dollars Release Fifteen Theatrical Advertisements Movie Theater

Author:Robert Greene

“For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me." It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand.”

Wells Littles Bigs Kids Remember Actors Bits Mom Couple Thousand Cute Little Kid Remember When Your Mom Being A Kid

Author:Mara Wilson

“First of all, we're not Rust Belt. I mean, that's an old term. We do have manufacturing. We have a half-a-billion-dollar investment from a Chinese individual, which brings a couple thousand jobs in Dayton.”

Firsts Mean Jobs Individual Term Half Couple Thousand Dollars Investment Billions Chinese Belts Manufacturing Rust

Author:John Kasich

“We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.”

Thinking Years Littles Helping Christian Hours Half Comedy Couple Thousand Racism Ethics Notion Silly Thousand Years Erase Half Hours Hanging Around Christian Ethics

Author:Norman Lear

“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.”

People Thinking Reading Millions Five Air Tvs Fine Couple Thousand Standards Hundred Engaged Online Partisans

Author:William Kristol

“The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Memories Couple Thousand Details Recalls Thousand Years Good Memories

Author:Kevin Starr

“A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.”

Writing Years May Two Ends Might Novel Five Couple Thousand Dollars Manage Five Years

Author:Mordecai Richler

“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'”

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