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“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

May Play Whole Used Night Stuff Five Minutes Six Meetings Piano Weekend Schedules Downtime Weekdays

Author:Aaron Levie

“I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.”

Ifs Stills Play Used Opportunity Five Six Seasons

Author:Steve Finley

“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”

Way Feels Years Use Used Spirit Strong Five Like You Singing Instruments Very Good Hearing My Way Five Years Opera Very Strong Tape

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.”

People Children Play Used Girl Three Lines Behinds Enemy Five Goes On Raised Jew Neighbor Barbie Neighbors Friends

Author:Roseanne Barr

“As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.”

I Can Feelings Together Past Used Memories Fiction Five Remains Bounds Vain Not Sure Squares Charming Vague Scrap All That Remains

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.”

“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

“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!”

Years Wells Book Action Used Reading Fun Felt Hours Rooms Half Five Share Privacy Comment My Sister Apartment Bathroom Half A Year

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“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

“A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.”

People Years Used Stars Five Four Frogs

Author:CM Punk

“I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.”

Men Used Teach Five Fellows Chapters Fellow Man Psalms

Author:Billy Graham

“The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.”

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Book:Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

Source: Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

“When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.”

Knows Feels Writing Long Book Enough Stories Used Gone Five Paper Boxes Pounds Chocolate Candy Detectives Detective Stories Box Of Chocolates

Author:Carolyn Wells

“I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.”

Writing Shows Used Names Voice Five Magic Tables Seven Scripts Dolls Puppets Older Sister Magic Show Ventriloquism Puppet Shows Schoolmates

Author:David Wenham

“People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?”

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Author:Melanie Griffith

“There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.”

Children Used Five My Family Arguing

Author:Jack Straw

“Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.”

Ifs Men Years Used Five Used To Be Ceo

Author:Michel Martin

“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”

Years Firsts Used Nations Answers Break Five Used To Be Five Years Frustrating Trophies

Author:Rahul Dravid

“I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.”

Bigs Remember Used Five Air Car New York Used To Be Bus Cents Spirals Great Day Staircases Trolleys Spiral Staircases

Author:Tiny Tim

“My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.”

Wells Used Parent Five Seeing Changed Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Affected Splits Changed My Life Away From Each Other

Author:Joey Badass

“I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Littles Used Bits Five Four Information Goes On Little Bit Investment Used To Be First Date

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.”

Years Used Church Five Singing Five Years Exposed Solo Five Year Olds

Book:I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

Source: I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

“Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.”

Ifs Years Made Two Use Used Five Wall Authority Mass Unions Permanent Settling Dry Five Years Two Years Bricks Covering Approved Shrinking Magistrates

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.”

Men Reason Used Five Modern Boards Great Men Swimming Pool Manchester Swimming Pool

Author:Louis J. Mordell

“You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in... In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually-and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb.”

“It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.”

Ifs Years Used Three Stars Careers Five Lucky Used To Be Five Years Movie Star

Author:Rex Smith

“When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Kids Used Five Havens Six Sentences Kicks Shelves Notebook

Author:John Darnielle

“Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.”

Doe School Used Energy Hours Five College Exercise Shapes High School Built Track Used To Be Ran Staying Workout Skinny Gymnastics Pilates Steroid Cheerleading

Author:Eva Longoria

“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.”

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Author:Franny Armstrong

“At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.”

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Author:Filo Tiatia

“I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.”

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Author:Tony Blackburn

“I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.”

Feels Ends Bigs Pain Used Found White Five Band Jokes Heavy Broke Scream Metals Folds Gigs Heavy Metal Rant Falsetto

Author:Ben Folds

“We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.”

Mean Ends Used Community White Levels Cases Five Products Finals Australia Goods Cents Cheaper Our Community Input Tariffs

Author:Andrew Robb

“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.”

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Author:Vince Gilligan

“A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!”

Used Guy Reading Five Four Rocks Band Sitting Used To Be Drummer Manuals Sitting Around Rock Bands

Author:Bill Bruford

“Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing.”

Knows World Writing Used Spirit Secret Known Five Flower Late Western Available Versions Golden Chinese Translations Western World Edited Dynasty

Author:Monica Esposito

“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.”

Firsts Persons Kids Used Church Rooms Five Week Mom Lessons My Family Albums Studios My Mom Singers Grandmother Halls Opera My Grandmother Vocal Microphones Carnegie Opera Singers Carnegie Hall

Author:Le1f

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Used Roles Five Needed Computer Mass Twenties Productions Boards Five Years Buying Mechanic Automobile Programmers Twenty Five Mass Production

Author:Gerald Weinberg

“What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.”

Giving Years Used Three Actors Difficult Audience Five England Seven Agents Five Years Three Years Auditions

Author:Julian Fellowes

“If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.”

Ifs Years Might Used Five Planes Five Years Making Time

Book:Andy Warhol: the late work

Source: Andy Warhol: the late work

“Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Past Used Half Records Five Size Currents Ridiculous

Author:Charlie Munger

“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.”

Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

“I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.”

Ifs Way Want I Can Used Guy Sports Five Six Beats Boxes Other Guys

Author:Jack Kirby

“I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.”

Years Used Five Five Years Peter Supermarkets Five Year Olds

Author:Luke Treadaway

“I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.”

Stills Used Five Used To Be Comedian Just Do It

Author:Adam Sandler

“Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!”

“I'm half-Mexican - get used to it 'cause in about five to 10 years, you're all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you're gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you're gonna walk in and say, 'Hey! What's happening? Since when did we start serving flan?' Well, what's happening is that somebody's boning a Latino.”

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Author:Al Madrigal

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