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“I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.”

People Shows Next Millions Gone Four One Day Singing Gymnasiums Casper

Author:Leroy van Dyke

“I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.”

Years Three Four Four Years

Author:Ariana Grande

“For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.”

Writing Years Firsts Four Produce Profit Enterprise Four Years Writing Music

Author:Peter Drucker

“But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.”

Children Littles America Parent Differences Four Perspective Majors Our Children Aging Privilege Your Children Vehicle Toys Fifteen Unlikely Aging Parents

Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.”

Years Two Shows School Next Half Talking Four Week Daughter Grades My Daughter Four Years Dolls Next Week Our Daughter Classmates Sixth Grade

Author:Jim Cummings

“Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.”

Guy Hours Four Twenties Bad Guys

Author:Elmore Leonard

“As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.”

Bigs Remember Sun Four Fans Keys Buttons Mice Macintosh

Author:Bruce Tognazzini

“Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.”

Play Games Differences Four Player Fairs Exciting Bridges Dramatic Experts Making A Difference Partnership Rivals

Book:FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY

Source: FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY

“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.”

Should Kind Two Matter Play Would Be Asks Hours Brain Practice Four Minutes Fingers Eight Active Concentration Maximum Pupils

Author:Leopold Auer

“Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.”

People Firsts Shows Three Four Stage Walking Late Mercy Albums Crowds Release Surfing San Francisco

Author:Tom Araya

“To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.”

People Thinking Four Nice Letters Four Letter Words

Author:David Steel

“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.”

“The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts.”

Moments Life Is Hours Four Wake Up Twenties Brands Offering New Day Brand New

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.”

Four Worst Criticism Contempt Apocalypse Horsemen Defensiveness Four Horsemen Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Author:John M. Gottman

“...consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market.”

Years Firsts Moving Five Four Coffee Brands Consumers Soap

Author:David Ogilvy

“The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.”

Years Littles Company Four Design Projects Track Four Years Typical Ibm Large Companies

Author:Bill Gates

“I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself.”

Home Care Kids Four Wife Tired Leaving Take Care My Wife Cooks I'm Tired Nannies

Author:Jeff Kent

“Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.”

“The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.”

Giving Years Said Stories Remember Used Reading Four Son Truth Is Years Ago My Son Four Years Foxes Holmes Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.”

Way Want Years Long Water Hours Growing Up Five Four Growing Distance Teenage Long Distance Swimmer Teenage Years

Author:Scott Speedman

“It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, more than anybody else's, to keep that in mind. One season, in TV terms, is nothing. You need to hit it for three or four seasons, and then you're doing well, in TV terms. Then, you've done your job.”

People Needs Mind Firsts Wells Hard Done Jobs Three Easy Term Four Tvs Seasons Episodes Wanting More Four Seasons

Author:Bruno Heller

“We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being told. My mom would have this woman come to our house and take photos of us. She did a photo book of us as well when I was one. I still have it.”

Years Wells Looks Children Littles Made Stills Book Stories House Five Four Mom My Mom Five Years Epic Five Year Olds

Author:Jeff Vespa

“D'Artagnan is the youngest of the four, and they're like his big brothers. They bring him up and teach him the ways of what it's like to be a Musketeer, and he embraces it with open arms.”

Way Bigs Teach Four Brother Arms Embrace Open Arms Musketeers

Author:Luke Pasqualino

“I didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four.I did it at the beginning because my brother did it before me and it was a hobby. I didn't mind doing it. But then it got more serious.”

Knows Mind Wanted Actors Four Serious Brother My Brother Hobbies

Author:Yasmin Paige

“I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.”

Want Writing Stories Order Three Next Four Projects Unfinished Dump The Next One Cornered

Author:Pawel Pawlikowski

“The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.”

Firsts Kind Shows Voice Morning Four New York Couple Radio Interviews Pubs

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“Sometimes you know about a job four months in advance. Sometimes you know about a job four days in advance. It's all different, and my thing is just to try to stay prepared. It's like being a boxer. You never know when you're going to get your next fight, so you have to just stay in shape, mentally and physically and creatively.”

Knows Trying Different Sometimes Jobs Fighting Next Four Months Shapes Prepared Boxers

Author:Michael Rapaport

“I was on Stargate: Atlantis for four years, playing a similar character called Ronon, who was an alien that didn't say much and grunted. I've been there and done that. Whether people have seen it or not, you want to stretch. And then, while I waited, I got The Red Road, and I'd never gotten anything like that.”

People Want Years Done Character Four Red Aliens Four Years Atlantis

Author:Jason Momoa

“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.”

“We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.”

People Ideas Dream Perfect Forget Millions Four Progress Perfection Credit Sixty Chips Transistors

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.”

Wells Ends Four Gang

Author:Steven Sinofsky

“There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.”

Stories Sides Four Happened Your Side

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!”

Way Believe Form Political I Believe Morning Five Four Get Up Breakfast Fascism Political Correctness Correctness Start The Day

Author:P. D. James

“We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.”

“I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.”

Needs May Four Deck Aces I May Not Be

Author:Jonathan Winters

“One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.”

Three Games Hours Watches Four One Thing Stupid Football Average Boring Boredom Horrific Football Game Colossal American Movie

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.”

Men Deals Four Bottom Reform Request Aces New Deal

Author:Paul Frank Baer

“Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.”

Self Christ Four Changed Obedience Reliance Renunciation Changed Life

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.”

Ifs Men Years Left Four Disappear Four Years Bees Years Of Life

Author:Albert Einstein

“The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.”

Persons Joy Given Compassion Clear Four Teaching Aspect Enlightened Equanimity

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.”

Way Film Simple Four Sky Color Photography Red Absolutes Blue Green Vulgar Lipstick Blue Sky Simple Words Foliage Color Photography

Author:Walker Evans

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.”

Ifs Can Do Simple Five Four Movement Drama Tasks Importance Practicals Narrative Sequence Theoretical Procedures Involving Retarded Power Of Music

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.”

People Remember My Own Four Eight Pairs Throwing Underwear Cleaners

Author:Dennis Quaid

“Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.”

Ifs Play Winning Break Records Four Fellows Competition Miles Winner Classic Just One Grind Symmetry Can't Win Hanging On

Author:John Landy

“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”

Years Age Born Half Four Regret Half A Year

Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.”

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.”

Men Firsts Guy Fall Jesus Christ Hours Four Picks Jesus Christ Twenties

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.”

Jobs Lasts Four Spending Defense Secretary Pornography Prostitution Narcotics Defense Spending

Book:Against Empire

Source: Against Empire

“Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.”

Firsts Hours Chance Four Messages Percent Dating Seven Dinner Nine Online Email Eleven Profile Online Dating

Author:Amy Webb

“People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.”

People Jobs Three Four Loneliness Higher Absence Engaged Boredom Wellbeing Close Friends Close Friendship

Book:Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Source: Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

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