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“Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.”

“Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.”

Writing Years Wells Said Interesting Five Intellectual Clever Five Years American Politics Columns

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.”

Five Wonderful Produce Source Green Strings Vegan Milk Cheese Chef Beans Protein Powder Broccoli Kale Cucumbers Avocados Smoothies

Author:Larry Hagman

“Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.”

War Wanted Peace Cases Five Development Fascinating Arrested

Author:Peter Ustinov

“I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.”

Years Has Beens Shows Force Five Air Special Huge Amount London Five Years Troops Air Force

Author:Larry Hagman

“After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.”

Men Feelings Sex Five Thirty

Author:Austin O'Malley

“It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.”

Games Five Thirds Impact Championship Nba Championships

Author:David Blatt

“During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.”

Persons Art Stills Ends Five Generations Forgotten Entertainment Nine Enlightened Despised Kipling

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.”

Knows Men Giving Should Two Problem Age Race Know How Five Team Dangerous Policy Couple Six Advantage Mark Rounds Soccer Championship Strain Marathon Rivals Youngsters X Men Nucleus

Author:Bob Paisley

“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."”

Way Two Three Numbers Five Four Mathematics Complicated Counting Chemist Hydrogen Helium Proton Lithium

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.”

“I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.”

Knows Should Years School Issues Five Effects Tables Five Years Five Year Olds Personal Issues

Author:Jillian Michaels

“When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."”

Knows Years Said Done Shows Five Son Five Years Over You My Son Yelling Five Year Olds Grandson Granddaddy

Author:David McCallum

“I want to be able to challenge myself. And do things that are away from what I usually do. Stand-up is safe for me. I can do stand-up in front of twenty-five thousand people, and I'm like, "I know how to do this. This is what I do." I want to be a little scared.”

People Knows Want Littles I Can Able Can Do Challenges Know How Five Fronts Thousand Safe Twenties Scared Twenty Five

Author:Dane Cook

“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.”

“I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.”

Ifs Mind I Can Ideas Song Creative Five Fields Months Six Come Up Six Months Playing Fields Creative Mind Tweak

Author:Chris Brown

“Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"”

Thinking Feels Writing Problem Natural Ability Five Too Much Thousand Opposites Paragraph Natural Ability

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.”

Ifs Years Reading Fun Bits Cases Five Adults Bunch Enjoyable Signing Squat

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.”

Years Careers Five Dancing Jazz Five Years Ballet Five Year Olds Professional Career Flamenco

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on 'Manhattan Love Story,' Tuesday nights at 8:30 on ABC, because it's pretty fun so far - is 'Psych,' which I did for four or five years.”

Years Stories Jobs Night Fun Five Four Judgment My Favorite Love Story Five Years Manhattan Tuesday Psych Tuesday Night

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.”

Thinking World Way Real Dream Acting Five Senses Objectives Real World Five Senses

Author:Amy Hardie

“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.”

Thinking Knows World Way Trying I Can Dream Might Process Deals Brain Five Information Concepts Senses Sequence Referring Five Senses

Author:Amy Hardie

“I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.”

Years Girl Five Plans Five Years Five Year Plans

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.”

Way Wells Has Beens Film Felt Walks Situation Five Minutes I Realized Five Minutes Biggest Fear Overreaching

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.”

Thinking Writing I Can Hard Done Past Life Is Three Bits Can Do Gone Five Materials Anxiety Jokes Pressure Come Up Relax Screenplays I Can Do It Paralyzed

Author:Steve Martin

“When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.”

Knows Firsts Five Comedy Magic Elements Jokes Stuck Tricks Banjos Magic Tricks Five Elements

Author:Steve Martin

“I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.”

Writing Song Process Voice Challenges Issues Five Comfortable Notes Melody Get Real High Notes

Author:Solange Knowles

“The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”

People Years Voice Five Singing Decided Dancing Five Years Comeback Great Voice

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!”

Firsts Long Sometimes Wish Hours Five Regret My Family Decided Extras Long Ago Don't Regret

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.”

Thinking World Years Different Dream Bigs Able Together Guy Easy Goal Realizing Simple Break Five Plans Grew Proud Band Members Grew Up Big Things Dreams And Goals Band Members Simple Plan

Author:Chuck Comeau

“Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.”

Ifs Men Years Used Five Used To Be Ceo

Author:Michel Martin

“To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.”

Five Four Feet Sheep

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“I'm very proud of my sister and protective of her. Solange is the one person I will fight for. Don't talk about my sister; don't play with me about my sister. If you do, you'll see another side of me. I admire her, and though she's five years younger than me, I strive to be like her. She's so smart and secure. She's sensitive to people's feelings, but not afraid of what they think.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Persons Play Feelings Fighting Sides Five Proud Smart Strive Admire Secure Sensitive Five Years My Sister Not Afraid Protective Like Her

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.”

Growing Up Five Growing Listening Band Heavy Dave Groove Funky

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”

Years Looks Ends Moments Waiting Differences Five Minutes Degrees Stealing Look Up Present Moment Cigarette Five Minutes Decency Smartphones

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.”

Feels Years Made Film Five Havens Dirty Five Years

Author:Terry Gilliam

“In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.”

Years States Five Lows Percent Increase Rate Population Five Years Immigrants Jobless Washington State

Author:Dave Reichert

“Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.”

Years Five Organization Five Years Assets Leaving Me

Author:Alfred P. Sloan

“We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.”

Needs Age Dark Five Minutes Musical Radio Pollution Five Minutes Dark Ages Aspirin

Author:Vangelis

“I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.”

Want Night Five Week Moon Metals Monday Friday Letterman Shoot For The Moon

Author:Eddie Trunk

“You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.”

Light Night Five Sky Appreciate Shining Shining Light Shinee

Author:Onew

“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.”

People Want Years Wells Kids Five Six Deserve Paid Treated Rubbish Lottery Apprenticeship

Author:Daley Thompson

“A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.”

People Writing May Reading Novel Audience Five Hundred Response Novelists Solitary Thrilling

Author:August Wilson

“We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.”

Country Five Dangerous New York Grew Grew Up Murder Moved Rate Hearing Funny Things Baltimore Maryland

Author:Philipp Meyer

“At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

Years School Five University Trauma Five Years Volunteer Centre Mechanic Bicycle

Author:Philipp Meyer

“I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.”

Way Different Five Jury

Author:Simon Hoggart

“In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.”

Needs Film Five Six Pages Luxury Every Second

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone.”

World War Seems Support Five Doors Greatness Stones Eras Presidential War Of The Worlds World War I Polls Outrageous Franklin Analogies Arthur Fading Wilson

Book:Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

“I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.”

People Book Five Twenties Dollars Profession Salesman Twenty Five

Author:Ian Frazier

“I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.”

Ifs Watches Five Nice Crazy Six Hundred Suits Collectors

Author:Mark Teixeira

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