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“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.”

Men Force Five Security Periods Percent Men And Women Afghanistan Eighty Taliban Security Forces

Author:James G. Stavridis

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”

Years Age Five Periods Battle Consequence Ultimate Five Years Helpful Sixty Continuing Colleagues Seventies Persuading Qualifying Ultimate Success

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.”

Mind Humans Two Three Hours Human Beings Five Wife Periods My Wife Rational Drunk Afternoon Midnight Talk To Me Of My Mind

Author:Stephen King

“Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.”

People Thinking Years Littles Self Together Lasts Political Song Half Five Written Periods Fit Decades Five Years Snapshots Self Contained

Author:Conor Oberst

“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”

Should Years Looks Two Age Hate Education Five Youth Periods Twenties Seven Vices Following Stranger Pursuit Five Years Divided Hereafter Passed Away Puberty

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.”

Knows Trying Mind Shows Age Sex Know How Five Week Crazy Periods Drink Sick Aids Performing Meat Restaurants Vegetarian Starving Fast Food Abstinence Having Sex Eyeballs Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Michael Stipe

“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”

Hands Pain Past Five Broken Periods Sorrow Twenties Eight Thirty Cheerful Twenty Five Broken Down Auditors Thirty Eight Mental Pain

Book:Self Analysis

Source: Self Analysis

“Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.”

Thinking Needs Stills I Can Different Sometimes Moving Turns Next Opportunity Mistake Five Week Minutes Periods Performances Defeat Five Minutes Different Times Time Periods

Author:Filo Tiatia

“So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.”

Ifs Kind Next Challenges Lines Five Four Wonderful Periods Scene Mouths Worried Coming Out Back And Forth Trenches

Author:Glenn Close

“In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.”

Years Wonder Five Television Tvs Periods My Friends Exciting Stuck Hated Thirty Five Years Researchers Exciting Things

Author:Mary Harron

“The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.”

Use Age Three Speak Boys Five Taught Periods Twenties Bows Three Things Speak The Truth Persian

Author:Herodotus

“In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'”

Five Century Periods Constitution Asking Sorry Copies Cartoon Librarian Englishmen 19th Century I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.”

Years Has Beens Past Company Five Periods Five Years Earning Deficit Profitable

Author:Peter Cundill

“Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.”

Giving Looks Done Bigs Happens Lasts Hurt Five Position Return Periods Standards Historical Size Billions Horrible Outcomes Assets Decline Only Time Splendid Stasis

Author:Charlie Munger

“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”

“I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first time in my life and my whole hand was black, and there was no way to even think of getting a rabies shot without driving for five days, and then you wouldn't have wanted that needle in your skin anyway. And I had my period. Everything was wrong at one time. Like, I couldn't have been more uncomfortable. And I stayed up - it was too cold to sleep.”

“The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.”

Knows Way Writing Years Firsts Voice White Know How Five Periods Paper Missions My Way Five Years Bags Remarkable Dense Paper Bags White Paper

Author:Richard Meltzer

“At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.”

Ends Bigs Running Natural Five Pieces Four Wind Huge Periods The End Of The Day Gas Swings Corridors Midwest Natural Gas

Author:Bill Gates

“I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.”

Years Firsts Two Ideas Courses Easy Acting Five Periods Normal Hot No Idea Five Years Unemployment Ups & Downs

Author:David Krumholtz

“After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.”

Years Hard Creative Five Development Internet Periods Thirty Five Years Domain 1960s Public Domain

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.”

“The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.”

Has Beens Lasts Growth Five Century Periods Projects Europe Prosperity Decades Frustration 20th Century Unprecedented

Author:Barack Obama

“Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.”

People Thinking Years Wells Long Film Used Five Periods Harry Potter Potters Exhausting

Author:John Hurt

“I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering my strength. That time also included incredible cocaine abuse, a heart attack and my wife's recovery from both alcoholism and cocaine abuse.”

Years Heart Five Wife Periods Abuse Incredibles My Wife Recovery Breathing Five Years Spells Gathering Alcoholism Cocaine Heart Attack

Author:George Carlin

“I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.”

Thinking Years Bigs Seems Five Four Periods Capable Radical Perceive Five Years Big Changes Radical Change

Author:Philip Glass

“The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during which he's struggling to figure out which direction to go musically and in his life. I play a record executive who's there to try to get Miles to collaborate with one of my clients. I'm excited to see that.”

Trying Years Play Film Next Struggle Records Five Figures Periods Excited Miles Five Years Executives Clients

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Real Done Lasts Behinds Gone Five Four Periods Degrees Percent Increase Climate Storm Weather Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Bad Weather

Author:Charles Koch

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