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“I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.”

Writing Trying Years Two Play Three Games Hours Morning Five Four Week Clubs Bridges Tournaments Duplicate

Author:Louis Sachar

“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”

Years Mean Ideas Feelings Age Reading Five Teaching Crime Direct Thirds Constitution Five Years Privacy Subtle Fourth Gross Fifth Invasion Violation Thorough Personhood Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Walter Tevis

“Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.”

Writing Years Wells Said Interesting Five Intellectual Clever Five Years American Politics Columns

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.”

Years Has Beens Shows Force Five Air Special Huge Amount London Five Years Troops Air Force

Author:Larry Hagman

“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.”

Knows Should Years School Issues Five Effects Tables Five Years Five Year Olds Personal Issues

Author:Jillian Michaels

“When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."”

Knows Years Said Done Shows Five Son Five Years Over You My Son Yelling Five Year Olds Grandson Granddaddy

Author:David McCallum

“I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.”

Ifs Years Reading Fun Bits Cases Five Adults Bunch Enjoyable Signing Squat

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.”

Years Careers Five Dancing Jazz Five Years Ballet Five Year Olds Professional Career Flamenco

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on 'Manhattan Love Story,' Tuesday nights at 8:30 on ABC, because it's pretty fun so far - is 'Psych,' which I did for four or five years.”

Years Stories Jobs Night Fun Five Four Judgment My Favorite Love Story Five Years Manhattan Tuesday Psych Tuesday Night

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.”

Years Girl Five Plans Five Years Five Year Plans

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”

People Years Voice Five Singing Decided Dancing Five Years Comeback Great Voice

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.”

Thinking World Years Different Dream Bigs Able Together Guy Easy Goal Realizing Simple Break Five Plans Grew Proud Band Members Grew Up Big Things Dreams And Goals Band Members Simple Plan

Author:Chuck Comeau

“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

“I'm very proud of my sister and protective of her. Solange is the one person I will fight for. Don't talk about my sister; don't play with me about my sister. If you do, you'll see another side of me. I admire her, and though she's five years younger than me, I strive to be like her. She's so smart and secure. She's sensitive to people's feelings, but not afraid of what they think.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Persons Play Feelings Fighting Sides Five Proud Smart Strive Admire Secure Sensitive Five Years My Sister Not Afraid Protective Like Her

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”

Years Looks Ends Moments Waiting Differences Five Minutes Degrees Stealing Look Up Present Moment Cigarette Five Minutes Decency Smartphones

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.”

Feels Years Made Film Five Havens Dirty Five Years

Author:Terry Gilliam

“In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.”

Years States Five Lows Percent Increase Rate Population Five Years Immigrants Jobless Washington State

Author:Dave Reichert

“Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.”

Years Five Organization Five Years Assets Leaving Me

Author:Alfred P. Sloan

“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.”

People Want Years Wells Kids Five Six Deserve Paid Treated Rubbish Lottery Apprenticeship

Author:Daley Thompson

“At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

Years School Five University Trauma Five Years Volunteer Centre Mechanic Bicycle

Author:Philipp Meyer

“I date guys who are five, 10, 15 years older than I am.”

Author:Susan Ford

“After doing a total of five years of Daily Grace, you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.”

Years Kind Five Grace Structure Five Years Allowing Burned Burned Out

Author:Grace Helbig

“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

“My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.”

Thinking Years Firsts Lasts Memories Five My Favorite Five Years Last Day Nuggets Great Memories Favorite Memories

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.”

Years Five India Winter Five Years Portugal Nepal

Author:Lykke Li

“My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!”

Knows Way Writing Years Rooms Five Six Female Five Years Backbone Female Writers

Author:Michael Patrick King

“Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.”

Trying Years Five Teacher Mood Ruins Five Years Sixty Five Year Olds Condom Recurring Cucumbers

Book:Ranting Again

Source: Ranting Again

“I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.”

Years Age Five Four Five Years Five Year Olds Stooges

Author:Chris Diamantopoulos

“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”

“My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.”

Years States Would Be Age Break Technology Five Thousand Nervous Things To Do Theme Bad Things Meaningless Arrogant Electric Thousand Years Extensions Nervous System

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.”

Ifs Men Years Littles Would Be Five Exciting Fats Bored Five Years Retiring Everest Mount Everest Fat Man

Author:Yuichiro Miura

“For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.”

Years Stories Fiction Five Honesty Conflict Injustice Corruption Violent Tales Fairy Five Years Treatment Realistic Fairy Tale Bedtime Five Year Olds

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.”

Years Five Five Years

Author:Janine Benyus

“I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.”

Years Moving Mother Father Forget Five Pieces Style Kings Chess Five Years Mates Hunting Trainers Five Year Olds Playing Chess

Author:Garry Kasparov

“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.”

“Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.”

Years States United Millions United States Five Percent Seven Ships Containers Cargo

Author:Irwin Redlener

“I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.”

Years Five Horror Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Kirk Hammett

“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.”

People Thinking World Want Years Looks I Can Ends Done Happens My Own Ability Talking Laughing Five Player Cups League Five Years Trust Me World Cup Premier League Strikers

Author:Nicklas Bendtner

“If I find what I like, maybe in about five years well be able to afford to build a home in the country.”

Ifs Years Wells Country Home Able Five Five Years

Author:Kent McCord

“I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.”

Want Feels Years Has Beens Age Able Five Blessed Entertainment Decades Entertainment Business

Author:Marie Osmond

“My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.”

Writing Years Firsts Art Five Six Training Disappointment Alternatives Right Direction

Author:Laurence Housman

“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.

“Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.”

Years Looks May War Today Next Peace Results Five Conflict Inevitable Five Years Temporary Appeasement Postponement Chamberlain

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.”

People Years Two Past Three Fun Wish Waiting Cities Hell Five Tired Five Years Two Years Fifteen Jordan Autographs

Author:Michael Jordan

“I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.”

Thinking Years Mean Has Beens Whole Economy Gone Five Minutes Institutions Credit Indispensable Oxygen Five Minutes Competence Halt

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.”

“80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Use Today Creative Five Products Resources Sells Customers Income Selling Five Years Buying Venture Be Creative Fabulous Innovative Joints New Products Joint Ventures

Author:Brian Tracy

“When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.”

Years Wells Five Four Alcohol Cocaine Powder

Author:Stephen Fry

“But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.”

Years Children Self Three Sports Five Four Six Disgrace Self Will

Book:The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.”

Years Said God Use Lasts Five Pieces One Day Paper Years Ago Machines Stupidity Copies Blank Secretary Typing Copiers

Author:Dave Barry