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“I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.”

Years Looks Ideas Next Five Happened No Idea Five Years

Author:Paul McCartney

“One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Years Wells May Stills Film Pleasure Five Special Events Havens Like You Five Years Daniel Day Lewis Special Events

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.”

Giving Should Years School Past Five Twenties Misery Five Years Indication Over The Past Twenty Five School Life School Days

Author:Paul Merton

“I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.”

Feels Years Firsts Long Made Remember Order Study Five Progress Long Time Five Years

Author:Joyce Meyer

“In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.”

Years Five Team Possession Opponents Five Years Inspirational Team Inspirational Soccer

Author:Jose Mourinho

“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

Years Government Goal Half Five Cutting Twenties Size Five Years Twenty Five Bathtubs

Author:Grover Norquist

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.”

Years I Can Dream Happens Jobs Fall Courses Speak My Own Five Comedy Twenties Profession Evolve Rising Five Years Twenty Five Changing Course

Author:Conan O'Brien

“When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.”

People Writing Trying Years Firsts Important Bigs Song Five Four Influence My Friends Five Years Writing Songs

Author:Conor Oberst

“Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.”

Needs Years Three Five Five Years Minimum

Author:Suze Orman

“Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.”

Years Lasts Millions Five Security Needed Determination Majority Congress Billions Despite Administration Five Years Grants Coast Port Last Five Years Coast Guard

Author:Solomon Ortiz

“Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.”

People Knows World Years Long Has Beens Stills Courses Strong Realizing Careers Five Long Time Five Years Pot Fleeting Vegas Melting Marie Melting Pot Long Careers Going Strong

Author:Donny Osmond

“People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.”

People Years Believe Stills Hard Five Crazy Madness Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Hard To Believe Python

Author:Michael Palin

“Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Years Humans Play Shows Happens Together Lasts Next Five Happened I Realized Realization Five Years Fragile Gigs Back Together Bulletproof Aerosmith

Author:Joe Perry

“In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.”

People Knows Want Years Sound Five Self Esteem Thirds Down And Sticks Inspired Albums Finished Settling Five Years Mum Settling Down

Author:Adele

“Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.”

Years Class Five Five Years Priests Village Working Class Parish Kent Vicars Bristol Parish Priest

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.”

Years Done Felt Bits Careers Five Twenties Enjoyed Five Years Twenty Five Disillusioned Disillusion

Author:John Polkinghorne

“The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.”

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

People Ifs Giving Years Earth Found Politics Race History Five College Five Years Amendments Prohibition Giving Money Constitutional Amendments Drug Prohibition

Author:Will Rogers

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

Should Years Country Political Five Immigration Five Years Immigrants Patriotic Better Life Migration Migrants Illegal Immigrants Americanism

Book:Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials

Source: Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials

“I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.”

Years Different Done Problem Wanted Jobs Fighting Acting Five Europe Tired Five Years Asia Bonding

Author:Mickey Rourke

“Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.”

Years Shows Five Groups Serious Statements Germany Five Years Massive

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

Want Years Home Mother Choices Three Five Son Succeed Daughter Accomplishment Five Years My Daughter My Son Three Years Workforce Five Year Olds Three Year Olds

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.”

Years Two Kids School Five Couple My Family Moved Seven Five Years Two Years Chicago San Francisco Colorado Oregon Connecticut

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.”

People Years Bigs Passion Millions Doubt Five Television Program Inspired Five Years Exploration Engineering My Passion Apollo Five Year Olds Contributors Apollo 11

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.”

Thinking World Years Persons Helping Past Sound Rooms Worry Five Information Happenings Madness Twenties Useless Five Years Our World Twenty Five Cacophony Useless Information

Author:Martin Scorsese

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.”

Should Years Pain Existence Five Morality Boards Five Years Justify Obliged

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.”

Thinking Years Enough Five Teacher Six Smart Glad Five Years Grades

Author:Alan Shepard

“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”

Thinking Years Humans Looks Felt Race Five Four Childhood Planets Members Comfortable My Family Aliens Human Race Five Years Tall Skinny Disconnected Five Year Olds

Author:Patti Smith

“My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.”

Years Firsts School Parent Five Generations Minutes Drama Ten Married Five Years Sixty My Generation Yale

Author:Lewis Black

“The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.”

Way Years Said Two Kids Lasts Five Week Months Doctors Teenager Five Years Two Years They Said Here I Am

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.”

Years Done Shows Next House Five Doors Appearance Neighbor Five Years Guests Five Year Olds Niece Next Door Neighbors My Niece Full House

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'”

Giving Years Wells Country Remember Song Records Five Female Radio Labels Relate Thirty Five Years Housewife Demographics Five Year Olds Record Labels

Author:Taylor Swift

“My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.”

Years Age Lines Five Wife Criticism Machines My Wife Five Years Pace Assembly Assembly Line

Author:Alvin Toffler

“I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.”

Years Five Havens Stores Five Years

Author:Ted Turner

“Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.”

Way Years Believe Country States Running I Believe Five Office Lawyer Our Country Ran Thirty Five Years Governors Requirements Residents Five Year Olds Minnesota

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.”

Years Stills Five Four Hills Five Years Four Years Damon

Author:Murray Walker

“Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.”

Inspirational Years Term Company Five Five Years Earning Short Term Jerk

Author:Jack Welch

“I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.”

People Thinking Years Today Change Five Expression Essence Maturity Five Years Mature Five Year Olds

Author:Ricky Williams

“Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.”

Writing Years Believe Reading Enjoy Five Four Fans Mountain Shining Holes Five Years Collections Anthology Huts Lobbying Galloping Heidegger

Author:James Wolcott

“I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.”

Thinking Years Would Be Five My Family Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Sharon Lawrence

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”

Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

“Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.”

Years Said Stills Important Real School Spiritual Five Medical Quitting Five Years Real Love Spiritual Love Medical School Seminary

Book:What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Beginners

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Beginners

“Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.”

Years Humans Two Earth Lasts Three Born Human Beings Morning Five Minutes Months Twenties Five Years Twelve Midnight Suburbs January Twenty Five Pubs Two Months Buenos Aires

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.”

Years Believe Five Internet Computer Percent Phones Boxes British Access Consumers Five Years Mobile Mobile Phones Personal Computers

Author:Richard Branson

“and he said her name to fill the space of five years.”

Years Said Names Space Five Five Years

Author:Ayn Rand

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”

“Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or breaking up with her aroma-therapist boyfriend, who reads the Tarot cards of kindergarteners and says things like, "Bring Aunty Liz another wine cooler, baby, and I'll let you wear my mood ring.”

“We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.”

Years Said Matter Facts Next Voice Quality Five Minutes Havens Mets Five Years November Matter Of Fact Daisies

Book:The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher

Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher

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