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“I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.”

Years Today Able Dies Strong Economy Records Five Proud Ten Budgets Five Years Balanced Deficit Propose Balanced Budget Strong Economy

Author:Rob Portman

“Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.”

Ifs Giving Kids Wanted Five Share Minutes Ten Give Me Shining Available Worn Five Minutes

Author:Michael J. Fox

“There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.”

People Years Lasts Five Ten Surface Five Years Mars

Author:Mary Roach

“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”

People Way Sleep Rooms Cities Five Streets New York Mines Ten Shadow Train Bottom Snow Flight New York City Coal Starving Sleeping In

Author:Bob Dylan

“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

People Trying Years Five Ten Years Ago Lifetime Committed Clock Score Better Now

Author:Jerry Garcia

“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

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).”

“Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!”

Age Today Forget Boys Five Pieces Sweet Flower Sorrow Thousand Ten Gold Let Me Horse Wine Coats Fur My Boys Fur Coats Sweet Wine

Author:Li Bai

“I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.”

Book Class Five Ten Twenties Dollars Library Scales Fifteen Payment No Money

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”

People Ifs Way Years Persons Turns Three Hours Millions Five Ten Hundred Lifetime Saved Extras Seconds Boots Macs

Author:Steve Jobs

“He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.”

Three Five Poet Masters Ten Lifetime Haiku

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.”

Years Nations Five Industry Ten Crisis Intervals Liable

Author:Edward Bellamy

“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”

People Wells War Seems Dies Fighting Social Loss Five Ten Hundred Los Angeles Consensus Ammunition Social Service

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.”

“Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.”

People Mind States Whole Practice Five Thousand Ten Six Lifetime Whole Life Concentration State Of Mind Entrances

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.”

Feels Play Jobs Enjoy Hours Five Week Ten My Favorite Things To Do Working It Going To Work Favorites Things

Author:Kelli Berglund

“Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.”

Two Choices Five Modern Ten Treats Mark Presses Vegetables Pants Fifteen Psychiatry Analysts

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.”

Years Kind Children Problem Age School Five Ten Normal Capable All Kinds Vary Variables Nonverbal School Work Neurological Disorders

Author:Temple Grandin

“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”

Firsts Religion Brain Half Five Ten Benefits Priests Commandments Adequate Lame Ten Commandments Half Truth

Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“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.”

Knows Years Issues Five Involved Ten Creating Creating Something Personal Issues

Author:Steve Martin

“A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.”

Needs Writing Made Book Film Song Three Five Directors Ten Singers Quitting Great Book

Author:Alber Elbaz

“No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.”

Years Kind Three Situation Five Months Ten Competition Invention All Kinds Three Years Twelve New Inventions

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.”

Young Sun Five Streets Crime Pure Ten Hundred Rose Vices Evening Rising Village Young Women Frost

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost.”

World Way Years Two Self Five Needed Dad Protect Ten My Dad Self Worth Five Years Two Years Abandoned Protected Sense Of Self Sexually Five Year Olds Two Year Olds

Author:Pattie Mallette

“I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.”

Knows Way Firsts School Remember Five Minutes College Ten High School Let Me Twenties Sermons Five Minutes Twenty Five Presbyterians

Author:Woody Harrelson

“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.”

Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

“Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes to fool us Americans. Ten look-alikes, and he's married to five of them.”

Looks Five Fool Ten Married Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:David Letterman

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.”

Knows Men Feels Years Country Five Ten Every Man Experts Five Years Novices

Author:Pierre Berton

“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...”

“If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.”

Ifs Firsts Might Company Five Team Ten Compromise

Author:Sam Altman

“Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.”

People Giving Years Book Use Seems Able Remember Three Fiction Five Impossible Scene Ten Conversation Pages Memoir Dialogue Five Years Conventions Astonishing Five Year Olds

Author:Paul Auster

“If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.”

Ifs Years Looks May Song Five Ten Memorable

Author:Randy Jackson

“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”

Knows Years Mean Two Games Sports Gone Five Thousand Ten Seven Zero Do You Know Bats Really Mean

Author:Reggie Jackson

“I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.”

People Sometimes Five Streets Minutes Ten Curiosity

Author:Claude Lelouch

“I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.”

Years Stills Play Five Week Ten Twelve

Author:Pat Benatar

“One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!”

Wells Two Three Five Four Alive Ten Six Seven Eight Nine Whining I Am Alive

Author:Eugene Sue

“Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.”

Men Needs Giving Two Passion Five Taste Shapes Ten Wine Hungry Bread Urgent Nourishment Containers

Author:Rumi

“I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will be number five through ten. That way they won't kick you off after you sell it.”

Way Writing Two Numbers Five Ten Sells Kicks Sheets

Author:Kevin Grevioux

“A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.”

Years Art Artist Dies Five Ten Five Years Fifteen

Author:Doseone

“If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.”

Ifs Long Two Book Would Be Artist Strong Fiction Five Ten Married Lists Tales Evening After Death Evoke Fiction Writers Married Life Gail

Author:Ned Rorem

“I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.”

World Years Firsts Done Passion Found Felt Accepting Millions Five Ten Computer Okay Green Screens Five Years Japan Traveled Explaining Translators Tokyo Dell

Author:Drew Waters

“It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.”

Night Waiting Five Comedy Minutes Materials Ten Sitting Clubs Depressing All Night Comedy Clubs

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.”

People Ifs Giving Would Be Goal Five Team Ten Balls Technique Clever Fifty Score Magnificent Yards Outstanding Very Clever Good Team Scholes Paul Scholes

Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson

“Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!”

Next Five Ten Eight Miles Annoying

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Use Three Hours Sleep Five Nice Ten Balls Wake Up Really Nice Up Early Prioritize Nice Day

Author:James Ponsoldt

“The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.”

People Ifs Giving Years Mean Guy Loses Millions Five Risk Ten Losing Credit Selling Incentives That Guy Default Losing Money Credit Default Swap

Author:Richard Thaler

“I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.”

Thinking Should Years Littles Sometimes Done Moments Wish Grows Bits Five One Day Ten Little Bit Let Me Evolve Live In The Moment

Author:Gloria Estefan

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