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“I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'”

Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.”

Men Three Easy Difficult Four Being True Single Women

Author:Georges Courteline

“A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.”

People Three Asks Four Rocks Areas Musical Ask Me Rock And Roll Chords

Author:Joan Jett

“Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.”

People Shows Guy Four Fans Normal Average Loser

Author:Simon Bird

“Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.”

Long Two Country Found Grows Cases Four Generations Middle Hair Lows Seasons Horse Hot East Middle East Long Hair Four Generations

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.”

Writing Mind Found Study Four Wall Equal Pages Sitting Clean Awake Enjoyment Theme Desks Four Walls

Book:Irving's Works

Source: Irving's Works

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.”

“We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.”

Years War Country Used Three Four Groups Serious Losing Beats Terrorist Used To Be Germany Japan Four Years Nazi Pearls Harbors Fascists Phony Nazi Germany Terrorist Groups

Author:Newt Gingrich

“In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.”

Stills Government Force Struggle Four Months Towns Iraq Desert Thirty Wilderness Devices Mexico September Eastern Lit Facility Blast Oaks Explosives Acres Tennessee Ridges New Mexico

Author:George Will

“According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.”

People Ifs Persons Seems Five Four Normal Statistics Disturbed

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.”

Years Able Acting Secret Four University Unusual Four Years

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.”

“You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.”

Ifs Years Two Jobs Actors Five Four Missing Two Years Paychecks

Author:Paul Haggis

“Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.”

Ifs Knows Trying Believe Facts President Talking Four Trump Republican Percent Including Hearing Barack Fifty Voters President Obama President Barack Obama

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.”

Believe States President Born United United States Four Citizens Republican Percent Barack Forty Voters Presidency President Barack Obama Unconstitutional

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.”

“You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.”

People Knows Kind Littles Different Three Wise Four Rocks Fronts Hundred Europe Hip Hop Pops Hips Hops Concerts Different Kinds Venues Swagger Gimmicks Different Kinds Of Music

Author:K-Maro

“There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.”

Years Made America Film Five Four Hundred Twenties Fifty Australia Twenty Five Made In America

Author:Guy Pearce

“The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.”

Political Four News Advantage Clinton Access Campaigns Data Revelations Belonging Voters Software Old Fashioned Controversy Coverage Bad News Confidential Glitches

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Might Four Standards Percent Shots Essence Sells Rate Agents Buying Fees Militant

Author:Rod Serling

“I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.”

Years Four Crisis Four Years Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Moby

“When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.”

People World Walks Morning Four New York Drunk Places In The World Debauchery

Author:Moby

“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.”

People Years Children Made Said I Can Remember Three Four Minutes Goes On Reader Ten Conversation Pages Years Ago Memoir Dialogue Ethical Sixty Small Child Pact

Author:Paul Auster

“What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.”

Men Trying Different Stories Four Birth Winter Versions Journal

Author:Paul Auster

“I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.”

“I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.”

Years Firsts Book Lasts Three Taken Four Written Months Sentences Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Paul Auster

“When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!”

Years Firsts Two Shows Wanted Found Successful Four Feet Directors Drawing Two Years Freak Gallery Exhibitions Flipped

Author:Betty Dodson

“I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.”

Thinking Years Art Church Four Hundred Capitalism Years Ago Catholic Productive Catholic Church

Author:Mick Farren

“I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.”

Writing Years I Can Millions Novel Four Envious Stanley Masons

Author:James Thayer

“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.”

Thinking Years School Film Four Students Shots Europe Technique Filmmaker Four Years December Film School Hungary

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.”

Important Hours Break Four Take Me Groove

Author:Grimes

“We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”

Humanity Evil House Four Conditions Crime Wall Victim Customs Prisoner Shut Up Pakistan Sanctions Crimes Against Humanity Four Walls Quaid Quaid Azam

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.”

People Firsts Body Lasts Three Four Members Draws My Family Gave Up Psychiatrist Family First

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.”

Want Two Different Night Certain Hate Three Sides Emotion Five Four Alive Opposites Acknowledge Broads Spectrum Variation Love And Hate Different Emotions

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.”

Ifs Writing Two Matter Hours Morning Four One Thing Fool Bed No Matter What

Author:Kiese Laymon

“I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.”

Real Hours Teacher Four Students

Author:Kiese Laymon

“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.”

“I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two hours of English and four hours of Chinese. I thought, what do I need this for? So I stopped going to class.”

Want Needs Two Language Term Hours Class Four Program Intense Chinese Novelists Requirements

Author:Hirokazu Koreeda

“When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.”

People Thinking World Four Seeing News Happenings Twenties Seven Around The World Every Second Breaking News

Author:Biz Stone

“I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.”

Thinking Knows Two Stories Three Sides Common Four Missing Focused Narrative Crucial Margins Unfolding One Direction Missing Something

Author:Sarah Stillman

“Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.”

Years Littles Long Whole Stories Jobs Four Written Projects Years Ago Collections Four Years Unsure

Author:Arthur Bradford

“I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.”

Knows World Way Years Wells Has Beens Seems Might Language Brain Four Loud Girlfriend Demon Four Years My Girlfriend Serials Speaking Out

Author:Blake Butler

“According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.”

Men Years Has Beens States Problem Three United United States Four Violence Risk Gun Victim Partners Factors Intimate Domestic Violence Public Health Health Problems

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.”

Ifs Want Country Together Girl Four Broken Vans Up And Down

Author:Valerie June

“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.”

Men Feels Years Children Different Age Mother Culture Three Father Parent Five Four College Married Majors Our Children Seven Five Years Divorced Eleven Anthropology Eighteen Different Cultures

Author:Lily King

“I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.”

“When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.”

Thinking Looks Matter Kids Young Names Fun Four Band Excited

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“There are so many great animals in our local shelters that people don't really know about. Annually, two to four million animals are euthanized, and we can bring that number down significantly by going to our local shelter and adopting and also by spaying and neutering your pets.”

People Knows Two Animal Numbers Millions Four Locals Pet Shelter Adopting Neutering

Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern

“I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative. This writer will avoid using too many words like "possibly," "probably," "maybe," "perhaps," etc. He/she will avoid using clichés, as well as a lot of metaphors, and won't take four sentences to say what they could in one (or write a great sentence and follow it up with a bunch of stuff that just weakens it).”

Ifs Writing Wells Reading Language Stuff Four Metaphor Sentences Bunch Narrative I've Learned Etc Slush

Author:Mary J. Miller

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