“The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.” Has BeensRealSeemsIssuesFiveThousandActivityMeaningfulBakingBiscuits Author:Alain de Botton
“Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.” KnowsYearsIssuesFiveInvolvedTenCreatingCreating SomethingPersonal Issues Author:Steve Martin
“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.” KnowsShouldYearsSchoolIssuesFiveEffectsTablesFive YearsFive Year OldsPersonal Issues Author:Jillian Michaels
“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.” WritingSongProcessVoiceChallengesIssuesFiveComfortableNotesMelodyGet RealHigh Notes Author:Solange Knowles
“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.” PeopleThinkingGivingYearsMeanLittlesBrainIssuesFivePlanetsThousandYears AgoEnvironmentalThousand YearsStewardship Author:Douglas Coupland
“It was a long road [trying to get pregnant a secong time]. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.” IfsThinkingTryingMorningIssuesFiveDoctorsHillsTestedBeverly HillsNutritionistAcupunctureTrying Everything Author:Kim Kardashian
“The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.” MenTwoRealIssuesFiveFour Book:The Outsider Source: The Outsider
“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.” YearsLongHas BeensGovernmentMightPastCasesIssuesTakenFiveBuildingProjectsLong TimeSevenAverageAcceptedApprovalSeven YearsFunding Author:I. M. Pei
“Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here?” YearsHas BeensHomeMillionsIssuesFiveFateHolocaustPalestinianReparations Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.” ImportantAmericaBlackIssuesEnvironmentFiveFourRightsWasteFundamentalsCivil RightsNeighborhoodToxicDumpToxic Waste Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.” IfsTryingWatchesIssuesFiveImagineMinutesBalanceDisasterFive MinutesWatch Me Author:Greg Giraldo
“Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.” KnowsActionCan DoDifferencesIssuesFiveMinutesPleaseSolutionsMaking A DifferenceEducateFive Minutes Author:Matt Damon
“I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.” ChildrenDifferentLevelsIssuesFivePersonalityRaisedDifferent LevelsLearning Experience Author:T. D. Jakes
“The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to our party on Saturday night." She, of course, shows up. He hands her two, three, four, five drinks. She becomes so inebriated he says, "You can sleep it off in my room. It'll be safe." Or, "I'll walk you home." It's all premeditated with the intention of having sex with that woman without her consent when she's passed out. It's a huge issue.” TwoStoriesShowsHomeHandsNightGirlThreeCoursesSexSleepWalksRoomsPartyClassBoysIssuesFiveFourNiceHugeDrinkPleaseSafeIntentionConsentSaturdayVery NiceSaturday NightHaving SexScience Class Author:Kirsten Gillibrand