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“Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'”

“Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.”

Important Games Six Self Improvement Ears Golf Improvement Inches

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?”

Firsts College Months Six Quitting Six Months Reeds Oregon Portland Portland Oregon

Author:Steve Jobs

“My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.”

Lasts Months Six Sick Convinced Tea Six Months Tea Party Brandy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.”

Years Fall Six Falling In Love Seven Shoes Average

Author:Kenneth Cole

“Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.”

Six Threat Seven

Author:Betty Shabazz

“I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.”

Children Dream Film Six Sixty Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael”

People Has Beens Different Would Be Six Europe Partition

Author:David

“I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.”

Years Ends Three Hours Emotion Discipline Six Tests Studios Granted Awards Strict Foreigners Admission

Author:Ralph Allen

“A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.”

Should Use Able Pieces Months Six Add Timeless Six Months Wardrobe

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”

Men Hours Sleep Fool Six Seven Eight Good Sleep Good Night Sleep Sleeping At Night

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.”

Years Speak Church Kings Members Six Twenties Congress Privilege Thrones Elders Passing Away Joseph Smith

Author:Brigham Young

“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”

Writing Three Hours Six Pages Eight Satisfied Agony

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.”

Years Business Pay Situation Sun Economic Needed Six Credit Buying Pet Ems Print

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.”

Ifs Giving Wells Long Would Be Millions Thousand Taxes Giving Up Six Hundred Vote Glad Income Passing Passings Ems Senate Cents Income Tax

Author:Will Rogers

“I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.”

Night Six Towns Charm San Francisco Bay Area

Author:Errol Flynn

“I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.”

Thinking Book War Reading Too Much Six Books And Reading

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.”

Men Persons Character Feet Strange Six Bills Height Inches

Book:The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.”

Firsts Father Skills Six Wire Plugs

Author:Gordon Bell

“...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.”

World Inspirational Humans Persons Reality Planets Six Billions Versions Perceive

Book:The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

Source: The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.”

Years Firsts Made Done Able New York Painting Paper Six Moved Seven I Realized Destroyed Default

Author:David Salle

“As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.”

Thinking Three Fashion Months Six Intense Designer Precise Six Months Deadline Fashion Designer

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.”

Trying Kind Mean Littles Done Running Wanted Bits Hours Roles Five Week Fit Scene Six Little Bit Seven Eight Be Kind Worthwhile

Author:Guy Pearce

“Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.”

Stills Jobs Found Six Draws Letters Seconds Publication Harvey

Author:Ernie Colon

“There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.”

Long Fun Stuff Months Periods Six Draws Drawing Six Months Absorbing

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.”

People Ifs Want Stills Paper Six Coffee Shops Ads Coffee Shop

Author:Dave Grohl

“That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.”

Years Faces Six Capacity Years Ago Court Credit Reputation Thrown Irrelevant

Author:Courtney Love

“The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.”

Way Trying Said Ideas Whole Simple Week Pride Prove Ego Six Size Yesterday Objectives Broke Baths Marketplace Simple Ways Whittling Excessive Pride

Author:William O'Neil

“When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.”

Would Be Together Team Moon Six Drawing These Days Pairs Sailor Weird Things Quartets Saturn

Author:Naoko Takeuchi

“In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.”

People Ifs Persons Ends Happens Morning Five Sea Six Sells Fishes Pounds Going Out Coming Back Indonesia Rice Java Fisheries

Author:Daniel Pauly

“Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.”

Ifs Knows Men War Wanted Energy Hell Source Months Six Baseball Gender Feathers Six Months Peacock Animalistic

Author:Bradley Cooper

“I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.”

People Years Looks Six Glasses Hats

Author:Theophilus London

“It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.”

Felt Voice Novel Six

Author:Andrea Hirata

“Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.”

Beautiful Form Water Six Tiny Snow Ice Crystals

Author:Wilson Bentley

“It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.”

Knows Interesting Mystery Week Particular Six Messages Cia Assassination Warren Commission

Author:Jim Garrison

“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Two Different Ends Fun Party Five Sweet Six Fishes Meals Different Things Chickens Vegetables Recipes Cocktails Shrimp Cocktail Parties Sweet Things

Author:Ina Garten

“Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.”

Ifs States Language Goes On Citizens Six Imposition Bilingualism

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.”

Two Common Impossible Six Letters Range Comparison Sanity Disgusting Spelling Monstrosity

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.”

Men Humanity Dies Girl Hours Four Week Husband Kissing Six Twenties Males Hopeless One Man Conception Lightning Cheerful Vivid Blast Drunkards Delirium Whisky Anathema Delirium Tremens

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.”

Trying Years Mind Persons Moving Dies Six Apples Every Second Six Year Olds

Author:Craig Stone

“I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.”

Ifs Knows Trying Actors Months Six Yeah Coaches Six Months Dialect Frenchmen Dialect Coach

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”

Kind Two Different Nations Food Six Hundred Forty Different Kinds Cheese

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.”

Thinking Should Important Ends Moments Character Stories Minutes Six Losing Seven Editing

Author:Judd Apatow

“I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.”

Ifs Want Years Firsts Matter Stuff Deals Months Amount Six Horrible Diets Six Months

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.”

Should Use Work Week Six Bills Wit Poison Soil Proportion Should I Brutes Toads Squat Days Of The Week Pitchforks

Author:Philip Larkin

“In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.”

People World Children Class Middle Six China Rising Buying Middle Class Upper Middle Class

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.”

People Children Values Strong Six Thirds Raised Shoes Core Realising Very Strong Upbringing Core Values

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.”

Children Made Kids Age Film Watches Brother Horror Six Hollywood Genre Cartoon Biased

Author:Emraan Hashmi

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