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“I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.”

People Thinking Feels Children Left Four Growing Ten Lovely Britain More Time Grandchildren Parliament Alienation

Author:Tony Benn

“Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.”

Four Ambition Letters Embrace Four Letter Words

Author:Tory Burch

“I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.”

Cities Four New York Championship Yankees Mayors Dynasty

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“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

“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.”

Knows Way Years Three My Own Four Months Seven Woods Bridges Wilderness Four Years Seven Months

Book:Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

“Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.”

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versaces bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those pinch me moments.”

Moments Remember Morning Four Dancing Bathtubs Tenants Stella Versace

Author:Carolyn Murphy

“After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.”

Years Firsts Wells Play Certain Four Knees Operations Nfl Four Years Drs Surgery Jet January Trailblazing

Author:Joe Namath

“For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.”

Thinking Mean Values Strong Principles Four Keys Taxes Conservative Focused Spending Defense Traditional American Values

Author:Jim Jordan

“The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.”

Persons Happens Young Four Happened Worst Gun Worst Things

Author:Paul Theroux

“Well, of course you question it, especially when you get to this point. I always look at it would I rather not make the playoffs or lose in The Finals? I don't know. I don't know. I've missed the playoffs twice. I lost in The Finals four times. I'm almost starting to be like I'd rather not even make the playoffs than to lose in The Finals. It would hurt a lot easier if I just didn't make the playoffs and I didn't have a shot at it.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks Courses Lost Loses Hurt Four Easier Shots Finals Starting Championship Playoffs Nba Championships

Author:LeBron James

“It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.”

Way Want Long Winning Four Team Depends Basketball Approach Long Time Fortunate Nba Trophies Mvp

Author:LeBron James

“That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.”

Years Has Beens Education Four Four Years Could Have Been Harvard Improbable

Author:Arthur Brisbane

“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.”

Years Attention Education Four Football Preparation Four Years Fraternity Professional Work

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.”

Shows Sides Effort Four Becoming Majors Standards Celebrate Soccer Disappointed Trophies Second Place I Am Disappointed

Author:Bob Paisley

“The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.”

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."”

Way Two Three Numbers Five Four Mathematics Complicated Counting Chemist Hydrogen Helium Proton Lithium

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ..."”

People Knows Should Said I Can Hard Can Do Four Smart Cat Should Have Mathematics Brilliant Like Me Mice Offended Geography Geography And History

Author:Ruth Park

“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.”

Want Rooms Talking Four Equal Percent Silent Access Honestly Managers Killers Sixty Mentoring

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"”

Thinking Knows Trying Moments Home Certain Three Next Stuff Four Week Building Studios Shooting Next Day Coming Back Rehearsal

Author:Anthony Heald

“When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.”

Bigs Four Budgets Sheets Free Time

Author:Chris Rock

“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.”

“I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.”

Want Past Hours Four Radio Flying

Author:Bill Burr

“I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.”

I Can Three Responsibility Roles Four Middle Scene Shooting Giants Killers Fifth Love Making

Author:Bill Burr

“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

“But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.”

Believe Two Ends Talking Four Doctors Eight Pills Not Talking Valium

Author:Corey Haim

“I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?”

Knows Children Littles Sometimes Kids Know How Four Television Like You Our Children Scream

Author:Florence Henderson

“I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.”

Thinking Remember Girl Three Found Roles Four Ass Agents Tested Great Times Other Girl

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

People World Should Children Book Stories Running Young Reading Left Grows Growing Up Four Written Hero Our Children Features Abandoned Running Away Ignored Orphan Children's Books Dickens

Author:John Boyne

“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.”

People Ifs Years Different Shows Mother Hours Dark Rooms Four Fronts Tvs Amount Sitting Radio Microphones Teresa Dark Room

Author:Wendy Williams

“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”

Years Book Three Reading Fiction Four Car Amount Bed Fairs Nonfiction Desks Back And Forth

Author:James Patterson

“The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.”

Ifs Thinking Years Looks Kind Hours Practice Four Fields Ten Complexes Patterns Be Good Chess Consistent Playing Chess Neurosurgeons

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night.”

Want Bigs Night Hours Challenges Sleep Morning Four Failing Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Michelle Mone

“Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.”

Thinking Years Kind School Past Felt Four Missing Comfortable High School Bigger Exciting Leaving All Kinds Horizon Four Years

Author:Matt Lanter

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”

Want Years Wanted Mother Four Periods Lessons My Family Musical Piano Four Years Playing Music Piano Lesson

Author:John Legend

“When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Running President Rooms Four Vote Agree Pleasant Four Years Guests Living Room

Author:David Brooks

“All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.”

Should Four Fingers Humble Pointing

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.”

Years Doe Art States Enough Running School Stuff Class Four College Lucky Photography Tests Grades Four Years Grey Hippie Art School Blah

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.”

Ifs Two Four Kissing My Friends Praise Profit Ass Conclusion Folly Foe Negatives Make

Book:The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.”

Five Four Feet Sheep

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.”

People Firsts Used Four Stage Fronts First Time Nervous Skates Weird Things

Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.

“The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.”

Thinking Important Names Prayer Christianity Four Progress Missing Fronts Sorrow Busy Buddhist Evening Riding Judaism Cadillacs Sandalwood Evening Prayer

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.”

Men Book America Four Hero Bases Comic Fantastic Captains Comic Book Spiders My Hero Spider Man Marvel Comics Fantastic Four

Author:Walter Mosley

“As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.”

Want Children Wanted Mother My Own Four Our Children France

Author:Segolene Royal

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..””

“I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.”

Thinking Years Made Four Huge Years Ago Four Years Better Place Thunder Positive Change

Author:Keith Hobbs

“I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Years Facts Jobs Law Three Given Stuff Four Coaches Four Years Good Job Recognise Unspoken Good Coaches

Author:Daley Thompson

“A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.”

Book Four Dog Series Inspired Borders Farms Sheep Acres Barns Rural Life Collies

Author:Jon Katz

“My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.”

Has Beens Four Influence Primaries Borges

Author:August Wilson

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