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“When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?”

People Knows Years Littles Wanted Young Used Girl Waiting Church Five Performing Five Years Cigarette Five Year Olds Young Ladies

Author:Etta James

“Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.”

States Mother Five Streets Wall Democrat Believer Firm Welfare Cracks Addict Bankers Constituents Welfare State

Author:Ann Coulter

“Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.”

Years I Can Used Five Stage Sitting Five Years Sitting Down

Author:Etta James

“If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.”

People Ifs Choices Five Drink Twenties Dollars Spending Fifteen Tickets Twenty Five Dvds Popcorn Frills

Author:Tim Lucas

“We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.”

Knows Years Five Valuable Reputation Brands Five Years Assets Seventies

Author:Michael Eisner

“You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.”

Ifs Knows Stills Ideas Artist Hell Five Heard Honesty Albums Who I Am No Idea Know Me Back Roads

Author:Rodney Atkins

“The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.”

Should Writing Beautiful Faces Three Morning Five Four Alive Reader Clock Reckless Good Writing

Author:Joy Williams

“It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.”

People Ifs Jobs Rooms Five Like You This Day

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.”

Needs America Five Smoking Cents Cigar Smoking Cigars Smoking A Pipe Tobacco Smoking

Author:Thomas R. Marshall

“I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.”

Years Five Five Years Performers Five Year Olds

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.”

Way Years Next Effort Five Importance Conviction These Days Five Years Village Highways Fiber

Author:Narendra Modi

“Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.”

Knows Next Five Minutes Car Stations Five Minutes Closing Buffets

Author:Oscar Wilde

“There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.”

“I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.”

People Knows Able Used Games Parent Sleep Five Dying Football Bed Ten Six Arguing Used To Be Staying Noon Fathom Football Game

Author:George Clooney

“Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.”

Years Five Died Girlfriend Five Years Grandmother Going Out My Grandmother My Girlfriend Dumped Mother Died

Author:Mike Gordon

“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”

Men Ideas Five Twenties Twenty Five

Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.”

Problem Answers Five Rate Annoying Annoying Things

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.”

Thinking Father Five Four Stores Farmers Afternoon Saturday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Dinah Shore

“I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Action Causes Sleep Taken Five Feet Offers Six Female Males Following Eight Height Tall Heels Scotland Amazon Groupie

Author:Shirley Manson

“Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.”

Thinking Years Three Practice Five Week Paid Yeah Gigs Paid Off

Author:Bo Bice

“Cookies are unbelievable. I have a problem, I eat like, four to five a day.”

Problem Five Four Unbelievable Cookies

Author:Ryan Cabrera

“There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.”

“Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.”

Years Made School Three Left Careers Five Pursue Made It Five Years Juniors Semester Junior Year

Author:Ruben Studdard

“Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.”

Needs Song Prayer Five Smell Architecture Senses Engaged Fellowship Lighting Five Senses

Author:Mark Driscoll

“Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the opportunity to do InMe full-time. We've got closer together, we've got a better connection.”

Years Firsts Different Together Opportunity Five Connections Yeah Albums Teenager Five Years Matured

Author:Dave McPherson

“They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff.”

Kind Littles Said Real Kids Young Choices Stuff Teach Five Mom My Mom Piano They Said Playing Piano

Author:Andrew W.K.

“I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.”

Trying Years Has Beens Body Lasts Process Five Broken Painful Legs Heal Teeth Hips Five Years Surgery Eagles Syndromes Last Five Years Broken Leg

Author:John Michael Montgomery

“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that”

People Years Wells Play House Five Taught Baby Grew Dad Ten My Dad Five Years Fiddle

Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

“I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do that because it goes through different waves and sometimes you want to listen to something and at other times you want to listen to something else so I don't know.”

People Knows Want Different Sometimes Asks Records Five Band My Favorite Wave Ask Me Freak Favorite Bands

Author:John Bush

“I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck.”

Together Guy Ability Company Records Five Necks Doubted Get Together Record Companies Albatross

Author:John Bush

“But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in the band, um, you've got no keyboards... you're limited. And I wanted... to go over-the-top, you know. Literally. I wanted to make an album that people would either hate or love.”

People Knows Wanted Hate Courses Stuff Five Band Albums Metals Theatrical Keyboards Over The Top Metal Band

Author:Arjen Anthony Lucassen

“I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.”

Knows Men Littles House Five Huge Arms Seven Following Bags Cameron Little Man Ferrari

Author:Brian McFadden

“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?”

Thinking Years Firsts Littles Together Lasts Black Five Wind Months Yeah Albums Studios Eight Five Years Sunday Touring Time To Think

Author:B-Real

“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.”

Men Trying Two Happens Song Causes Five Written Minutes Havens Hero Calling Angel Thirds Ruins Piano Old Man Bites Five Minutes

Author:Francis Dunnery

“When I put Fight together, I wanted to maintain the momentum. I didn't want to kinda disappear for five years and then come back. I was just so ready to break away from where I was before and just start the journey. To just fulfill and realize these dreams that I carry in my head.”

Want Years Dream Wanted Together Fighting Realizing Break Five Journey Ready Disappear Five Years Momentum

Author:Rob Halford

“It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.”

Years Firsts Home Age School Study Five Teacher Lessons Locals Piano Five Years Composition Five Year Olds Elementary School Piano Lesson Yamaha

Author:Hiromi

“Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.”

Trying Play Left Records Five Player Guitar Chicago Lone Lone Wolf Record Players

Author:James Cotton

“I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't stand on stage and play guitar. I didn't have enough talent as a kid to play guitar. I started really late. I hired a guitar teacher when I was in Nashville and I applied myself and stayed focused.”

Ifs Thinking Years Mind Enough Play Kids Can Do Half Five Teacher Stage Talent Late Years Ago Guitar Focused You Can Do It Nashville Half A Year

Author:Jimmy Wayne

“I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Reason School Film Young Teach Five Influence Hollywood Combination Visuals Plus Opera Storyline Staging Best School Film And Music

Author:Lalo Schifrin

“The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.”

Years Firsts Soul Three Careers Five Six Circles My Soul Thirty Three Years Living On Gypsy Full Circle

Author:Maureen McGovern

“My main intention is to inspire people. [Let] kids know that you experience things and it's okay to voice them and express yourself. Be an individual. If my record moves five people, that's good enough. I feel like I've done my job if it just touches somebody.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Done Enough Kids Jobs Moving Individual Voice Records Five Inspire Okay Intention Good Enough Express Yourself

Author:Sarah Hudson

“You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.”

Knows Giving Kind Stills I Can Enough Use Film Certain Watches Audience Five Materials Hundred Marketing Surprising

Author:Christopher McQuarrie

“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.”

“Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.”

Ifs Giving Trying Enough Guy Asks Pay Successful Five Tests Response Bottom Campaigns Target Ads Purchasing

Author:Dave Ramsey

“I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.”

Way Hours Five Strange My Way Strange Places

Author:Nina Simone

“We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use our connections, all the time. It's like, they didn't really do much for us, I mean, they would give us money here and there and you know, do stuff like that but, I mean, overall, they didn't push us.”

Knows Giving Years Mean Use Stuff Records Five Six Connections Tired Islands Here And There

Author:Jess Margera

“The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.”

States Government Wanted Fighting United United States Five Groups Hundred Shots Wake Up Twenties Smell Accepted Coffee Rebel Syria Seventies Isis Twenty Five

Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif

“The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with...”

Years Country Wish Born Records Five Citizens Raised Access Terrorist Five Years American Citizens Born And Raised

Author:Marco Rubio

“I like to think I'm healthy. I exercise a lot. I have this great dog, and I walk her about five days a week. I dance, I surf. I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.”

Thinking Trying Enough Sleep Walks Five Week Dog Exercise Healthy Critical Vegan Surf Great Dog Enough Sleep

Author:Jorja Fox

“This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.”

People Thinking Years Believe Made Spirituality I Believe Felt Sound Hell Five Four Tree Flower Understood Years Ago Grass Discussion Five Years Believe In God Hawaii Cheesy

Author:Natalie Maines

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