“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.” PeopleIfsJobsRoomsFiveLike YouThis Day Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenActionCausesSleepTakenFiveFeetOffersSixFemaleMalesFollowingEightHeightTallHeelsScotlandAmazonGroupie Author:Shirley Manson
“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.” IfsThinkingYearsMindEnoughPlayKidsCan DoHalfFiveTeacherStageTalentLateYears AgoGuitarFocusedYou Can Do ItNashvilleHalf A Year Author:Jimmy Wayne
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsDoneEnoughKidsJobsMovingIndividualVoiceRecordsFiveInspireOkayIntentionGood EnoughExpress Yourself Author:Sarah Hudson
“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.” IfsGivingTryingEnoughGuyAsksPaySuccessfulFiveTestsResponseBottomCampaignsTargetAdsPurchasing Author:Dave Ramsey
“There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.” PeopleIfsWayArtLawBeliefTermFiveFourProduceConformityShut UpOrganize Author:Jane Smiley
“[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.” IfsStillsWholeDealsFiveViolenceSixGunShotsHolesFactorsContributingBucketsPlugsGun Violence Author:Joycelyn Elders
“I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.” IfsYearsNextSpeakGivenChanceFiveTenYears AgoAlbumsFive Years Author:Zach Condon
“Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.” IfsGivingHappensForgetMillionsFiveTwentiesDollarsForget ItMillion DollarsTwenty Five Author:Paul Reed Smith
“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.” PeopleIfsGivingNightPassionIndividualStuffHoursFiveMiddleMinesOffersPhotographyGive MePaidReliefWeekendVacationEditingNo MoneyMiddle Of The NightLaptops Author:Nikki Sixx
“It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.” PeopleIfsWayWantIdeasTogetherFightingRoomsCreativityCreativeFiveImpossibleSixSevenBe Creative Author:Adam Duritz
“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.” IfsYearsMeanI CanCountryPresidentFiveRightsEqualSingingFive YearsEqual Rights Author:Wyclef Jean
“So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.” IfsTryingSaidWantedHouseParentFiveFourFiguresLessonsInstrumentsMusicalPianoClimbingRecallsMusical InstrumentsPiano LessonClimbing Up Author:Vienna Teng
“That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.” IfsNeedsPlayWould BeFiveFourBasketballNeed You Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.” IfsFeelsYearsWould BePoliticalNextStrongFiveMinutesJokesFive MinutesOutdatedPolitical Jokes Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.” IfsMenWarCoursesFiveHundredArrogantStatuesMeltingBronzeCarelessnessVetinari Book:Jingo: Stage Adaptation Source: Jingo: Stage Adaptation
“Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.” IfsCountryThreeFiveEight Author:Kate Simon