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“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.”

“This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.”

Men Years Ends Forever Five Heard Century Ought Hundred Rapture

Author:John Adams

“When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.”

“I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.”

Writing Years Stills Book Jobs Next Five Week Ears Finished Five Years Fog Next Week Day Jobs

Author:Ken Thompson

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”

Years Has Beens Wisdom Hands Loss Cities Five Hundred Letters Twenties Infinite Wit Temples Verses Castles Palaces Monument Miscellaneous Twenty Five Syllables

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.”

Years Long Five Four Masters Tvs Horror Directors Long Time Series Five Years Burned Tv Series Burned Out

Author:John Carpenter

“I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.”

Years Remember Guy Millions Five Cry Mad

Author:Eric Davis

“I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.”

Way Years Different Five Degrees Moved Spending London Different Ways Five Years Coast Cornwall

Author:John Dyer

“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

“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”

Source: The American Spirit

“No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.”

Knows Years Doe Artist Time Five Hundred Lifetime Seventies

Book:Francis Bacon

Source: Francis Bacon

“I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.”

Thinking Years Looks Happens Five Genius

Author:Ted Turner

“I was five years old the first time I got drunk.”

Years Firsts Five First Time Drunk Five Years Five Year Olds

Book:John Barleycorn

Source: John Barleycorn

“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'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.”

Ifs Years Age Five Months Aging Eight Forty Sixty Fifteen Forty Eight Geriatrics

Author:James Thurber

“When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.”

Years Humor Running Funny Five Streets Horse Rounds Five Years Purple Merry Five Year Olds Merry Go Round Gunshots

Author:Steven Wright

“I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.”

Thinking Should Trying Years Kind Children Ideas Wanted Felt Five Plans Clock Five Years Prisoner Five Year Plans Clock Ticking Biological Clock

Author:Kristen Stewart

“It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.”

People Years Reason Together Difficult Five Minutes Years Ago New Year Five Minutes Years Together

Author:Ray Liotta

“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.”

Years Long Has Beens Government Might Past Cases Issues Taken Five Building Projects Long Time Seven Average Accepted Approval Seven Years Funding

Author:I. M. Pei

“Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.”

“Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.”

People Writing Years Song Five Labor Albums Five Years

Author:PJ Harvey

“It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.”

Years Bigs Jobs Guy Three House Millions Five Four Player Couple Basketball Bucks Basketball Player Big Houses

Author:Frank Grillo

“Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”

People Knows Years Mind Heart Different Sometimes Beautiful Three Opinion Five Poet Six Nine Innocent Three Times Nine Years Another Time Beautiful Heart Different Opinions Beautiful Mind

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.”

People Want Years Order Five Hollywood Independent Mainstream Not Interested Good Movie Bad Movies

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.”

Years America Five Five Years

Author:Danny Brown

“I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Whole Film Five Fronts Promise Mirrors Drawing Features Five Years Contracts Short Films

Author:Patrice Leconte

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.”

Thinking World Writing Years School Film Young Courses Five Return Theater Newspapers Hungry Around The World Five Years Opera Film School

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.”

Years Firsts Made Two Film Found Five Focus Happened Program Chosen Winner Features Paris Short Films Residency

Author:Chika Anadu

“It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.”

Writing Years Five Impossible Events Twenties Notes Five Years Paranoia Twenty Five Assassination Aftermath Kennedy Assassination

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.”

Years Art Stills Moments Born Five Alive Magic Music Is Years Ago Twenties Excited Hungry Five Years Motivated Twenty Five

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.”

World Years Able Five Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!”

Years Said Ideas Real Five Honest Fronts Years Ago Being Honest No Idea Five Years Inability Intimidated Realtors

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“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

“There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.”

Years Ends Reason Three Five Four Proud Five Years Wrong Reasons

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.”

Years Five Band Five Years

Author:Liam Gallagher

“I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Made Seems Film Bits Successful Five Missing Driving Treated Five Years Elderly Daisies Five Year Olds Cocoons

Author:Maggie Smith

“The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.”

Writing Years Firsts Said Ideas Ends Character Guy Evil Lost Five Majors Decided No Idea Five Years Lunch Once Upon A Time Lost You

Author:Alan Dale

“To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.”

Years Doe Done Together Five Honest Example Producers Being Honest Five Years Potters Working Life Orlando

Author:Tilda Swinton

“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”

Years Chance Five Months Summer Percent Scientist Disappear Access Ice Data Five Years Navy Caps Submarines

Author:Al Gore

“I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!”

Want Writing Years Would Be Five Band Volume Autobiography

Author:Ringo Starr

“My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.”

Years Five Five Years Presidency

Author:Barack Obama

“To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.”

Years Littles Hands Games Brain Five Produce Computer Laughter Sight Affair Screens Staring Five Years Solitary Depressing Mice Exposure Five Year Olds Computer Games

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.”

Years Stories Stars Five Saws Four Building Years Ago Five Years Roof Stem Spontaneous Careless Descent Curls Gutters Vertical Kindling Mockingbird

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.”

Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814

“Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.”

People Trying Years Home Lasts Five Independent Five Years Disabled Years Of Life Last Five Years

Author:Katy Butler

“Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.”

Ifs Thinking Years Five Tomorrow Late Caught Five Years Too Late Capture Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.”

Years My Own Five Car Five Years Austin

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.”

Years Has Beens Book Five Written Twenties Five Years Screenplays Twenty Five Screenwriters

Author:Alice Hoffman

“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.”

Way Writing Years Made Hands Jobs Used Given Five Week Century Television Tvs Six Hollywood Scripts Studios Used To Be My Time Contracts Staff 21st Century Back When Great Job Movie Business

Author:Vince Gilligan

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