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“To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.”

Thinking Years Five Seven Eight Five Years Magnitude

Author:Steve Jobs

“Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.”

Knows Years Facts Shows Bigs Courses House President White Five Dinner Five Years Tonight White House Do You Know President Obama Weekend

Author:David Letterman

“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”

Want Years I Can Play Three Five Comfortable Baseball Guitar Divorce Strikes Five Years Going Through Divorce Three Strikes

Author:Buddy Guy

“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

Years Firsts Spirit Religion Jesus Christianity Teach Five Holy Equal Inspired Holy Spirit Glorious Revelations Five Years Flash Inward Illumination Theological Seminary

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.”

Inspirational Years Stories Might Today Next Successful Five Months Tomorrow Five Years Next Year

Author:Jon Jones

“My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.”

Want Years Wanted Young Actors Five Mom Years Ago Theater My Mom Five Years Auditions

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.”

Years Art School Five Five Years Art School Five Year Olds

Author:Iris Apfel

“I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.”

Years Wells Home Five Broken Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Five Years Five Year Olds Broken Homes

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.”

People Knows Years Persons Has Beens Two Dies Causes Results Brain Talking Five Minutes Disease Scientist Average Posts Muscles Five Years Als Diagnosis Terminal Terminal Disease

Author:Steve Gleason

“In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.”

People Years Lasts Five Becoming Habit Twenties Visuals Five Years Twenty Five

Book:Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941

Source: Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941

“People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.”

People Years Facts Seems Moving House Five Built Seven Quitting Tension Five Years Tides Going Out Seven Years

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.”

Years Next President Five College Presses Meetings Series Five Years Los Angeles Boston Minnesota Years Of Experience

Author:Billy Graham

“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.”

Years Mind Past My Own Five Meditation Amount Praise Thirty Five Years Coincidence

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.”

Years Firsts Age Hours Millions Five Fate Ten Breaths Satisfaction Drawing Performing Five Years Labour Factories Twelve Spinning Fourteen Cotton

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Men Years Mind Has Beens Made Political Life Is Given Opinion Principles Five Subjects Circumstances Years Ago Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Opportunist Political Opinions

Author:A. P. Herbert

“We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.”

Knows Men Years Littles Today Speak Class Five Tomorrow Years Ago Labor Accounts Twenties Slave Yesterday Permanent Five Years Southern Better Off Twenty Five Laborers

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.”

Years Talking Five Particular Five Years Topics Actuality

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.”

People Years Young Differences Successful Five Generations Worst Twenties Five Years Being Successful Worst Things Twenty Five Qualitative Older Generation

Author:Cornel West

“A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.”

Years Study Five Effects New York Doctors Smell Finished Five Years Jersey New Yorkers New Jersey Vanilla

Author:Jay Leno

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.”

Years Bigs Party Five Five Years Birthday Party Morocco

Author:Chip Conley

“Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.”

Years Persons Ideas Five Stress No Idea Five Years Checklists Less Stress

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.”

Men Years Made Courses Sides Fire Five Doors Lifetime Five Years Acquire Abandoned Wardrobe Exit Rooftops Fire Escapes Escargot

Author:Frank Abagnale

“In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.”

Years Lasts Used Practice Five Months Harder Posts Ministers Five Years Prime Prime Minister Last Five Years

Author:Shinzo Abe

“My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.”

Years Two Christianity Five Brother Disease Brands Enjoyed My Brother Five Years Forty My Sister Sixty Zealous

Author:Mark Twain

“I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. "Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla" - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!”

People Years Looks Ideas Remember Five Havens Years Ago Twenties Bills Five Years Diaries Twenty Five

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”

“They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!”

Men Years Stills Two Together Guy Five Gay Married Twenties Saved Drunk Five Years Vegas Twenty Five Sanctity Gay Men Chapel Sanctity Of Marriage

Author:Lea DeLaria

“The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)”

Years Hard Order Courses Five Labor Court Including Five Years Contempt Perl

Author:Larry Wall

“One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.”

Giving Years Results Five Products Five Years Pounds

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.”

Years Has Beens War Five Five Years Forty Handy

Author:David Gemmell

“I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.”

Way Feels Years Looks Process Five Judging Shooting Five Years Editing

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.”

Ifs Years Littles Said Stills War Done Stories Five Four Wife Type Couple One Day Pages Humorous Army My Wife Finished Five Years If I Could Short Story Operators

Author:Carl Reiner

“I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.”

Men Years Mind Children Persons Done Young Names Voice Half Talking Five He Man Brother Seven My Children My Brother Five Years Half A Year

Author:Maya Angelou

“It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.”

Years Guy Cities Five New York Fairs Holes Fixed Five Years New York City

Author:Ray Nagin

“I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.”

People Ifs Want Years Order Five Journey Car Five Years Tall Fewer I Want You Transport Hold Me

Author:John Prescott

“Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.”

Years Use Girl Five Prepared Five Years Mario

Author:Liberty Ross

“I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.”

“Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.”

People Years Looks Stills Care Passion Laughing Five Four Don't Care Lust I Don't Care Five Years Dedicated Making People Laugh Five Year Olds

Author:Bernie Mac

“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Years Realizing Pleasure Morning Five Sadness Youth Wake Up Speed Passing Passings Five Years

Author:Derek Tangye

“Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.”

“I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).”

Source: The New Psychohistory

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”

Years Age Five Periods Battle Consequence Ultimate Five Years Helpful Sixty Continuing Colleagues Seventies Persuading Qualifying Ultimate Success

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.”

Way Years Stills Self Faces Fall Sleep Consciousness Watches Five Wife Twenties Deeper My Wife Five Years Unconscious Fascinated Twenty Five Sleepers

Author:David Bottoms

“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.”

Trying Years Has Beens Said Past House President White Secret Half Five Five Years White House President Obama Fence Jumping Incidents Other Half Secret Service Intruders

Author:Conan O'Brien

“You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.”

Men Years Has Beens Stills States Home Bigs President United Deals United States Five Heard Five Years Prisoner President Obama Cuba Bud Back Home Approved Havana

Author:David Letterman

“For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.”

Years Used Millions Records Five Rocks Huge Years Ago Hip Hop Pops Flying Selling Hips Five Years Hops Shelves

Author:Jacoby Shaddix

“Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.”

Men Years Firsts Believe Persons Lasts Strong I Believe Black Deals Five Ready Reflection Tough Five Years Our Relationship Black Women Grooming

Author:Snoop Dogg

“It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.”

Years Running Winning Five Five Years Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Andy Pettitte

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