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“I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!”

Thinking Years Long Five Minutes Fashion Ten Clothes Long Time Daughter Closets Five Minutes Vintage Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Tom Ford

“I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."”

People I Can Waiting Sin Roles Five Fans Fine Ten Okay Hardcore

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“I love everything. I don't see myself doing a really serious drama in the next five to ten years. I don't feel mature enough for that yet. But I'd like to make a pure action movie one day or maybe I can do a comedy again. I do like everything. But I don't feel ready for a musical or something like that. That's not my thing yet.”

Feels Years I Can Enough Action Next Can Do Five Comedy Serious Ready Drama One Day Pure Ten Musical Mature Action Movie

Author:Tommy Wirkola

“My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.”

Knows Way Years Long Two Ends Stories Simple Know How Five Tvs Theory Ten Computer Screens Cinema Two Ways Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.”

People Years Important Age Memories Growing Up Five Growing Happened Ten Tangible

Author:Jello Biafra

“London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.”

People Years Problem Next Lines Five Happened Car Ten Solutions Hundred London

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I had five dollars in the bank that I couldn't have for three days until they charged me another 15. Leaving me with -10. What does that mean? I don't even have no money any more. I wish I had nothing. But I don't have it. I don't have that much. I have not ten. Negative ten. I can't afford to buy something that doesn't cost anything. I can only afford to get something that costs you give me ten dollars.”

Giving Mean Doe I Can Three Wish Five Cost Ten Negative Give Me Dollars Leaving Leaving Me No Money

Author:Louis C. K.

“I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.”

People Knows Able Used Games Parent Sleep Five Dying Football Bed Ten Six Arguing Used To Be Staying Noon Fathom Football Game

Author:George Clooney

“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that”

People Years Wells Play House Five Taught Baby Grew Dad Ten My Dad Five Years Fiddle

Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

“I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.”

Ifs Years Next Speak Given Chance Five Ten Years Ago Albums Five Years

Author:Zach Condon

“The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.”

Years Age Individual Five Ten Skills Twenties Assumption Replaced Obsolete Twenty One New Knowledge Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.”

Made Different Five Discipline Ten Flip Flopping

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.”

Want Needs Years Looks Vision Five Amount Discipline Ten Practicals Clarity Endurance Application Fifteen End Times Spend Time Fifteen Years Clarity Of Vision

Author:Rory Vaden

“People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."”

People Might Next Stuff Five Minutes Ten Mad Mess Next Time Cocaine

Author:Moses Malone

“The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.”

Giving Whole Would Be Three Millions Economy Records Five Groups Changed Ten Dollars Eighty Million Dollars Upside Down

Author:Tony Visconti

“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.”

“Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.”

Years Littles Bits Five Feet Ten Little Bit Scary Fourteen

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.”

Want Firsts Real Sometimes Hard Character Film Night Five Middle Minutes Ten Mouths Appearance Defined Shooting Schedules Want Him Nervousness

Author:Donald Sutherland

“I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.”

Needs I Can Play Used Loses Levels Five Minutes Ten Twenties Track Clock Good Sense

Author:Z'EV

“Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.”

Two Sometimes Able Hours Class Five Minutes Ten Yoga Yeah Luxury Just Do It

Author:Lisa Rinna

“Do something physical every day, even if it's just five or ten minutes of fast walking a couple times a day. That tends to replace fear and anger with determination and courage. It can change your identity, your momentum.”

Ifs Five Minutes Identity Couple Walking Ten Determination Momentum Your Mom

Author:Tony Robbins

“On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.”

Five Risk Groups Television Ten Percent Scientist Entertainment Programming Prime Prime Time

Author:George Gerbner

“It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty. You won't ever pitch for the big leagues, for example. But I believe anyone, regardless of age, can write if he or she is willing to do the work, and I'm talking about spending at least an hour or two at it almost every day for five to ten years.”

Ifs Writing Years Believe Stills Two Dream Bigs Might Age I Believe Hours Talking Five Example Willing Depends Ten Spending League Your Dreams Fifty Sixty

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.”

People Years Young Views Steps Five Progress Development Ten Photography Photographer Point Of View Inevitable

Author:Ansel Adams

“I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.”

Running Hours Sleep Five Four Week Goes On Ten Seven Crash Vague Get Over Cocaine

Author:George Carlin

“The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.”

“In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense - typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. Possession of a tiny amount of crack cocaine, on the other hand, was given a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.”

“Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are a thought leader and have some good ideas on how to make the world better, and even if you write five or ten books - that won't have much effect unless you have people who are willing to support your ideas.”

People Ifs World Needs Writing Littles Book Ideas Leader Support Five Achieve Effects Willing Like You Ten Ordinary Good Ideas Ordinary People

Author:Thomas Pogge

“The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you go see ten shows, you'll only get five - if you're lucky - that'll give you that experience. But the rest, at the very least, will be interesting.”

Ifs Giving Shows Remember Interesting Five Lucky Ten Theater Great Things Rest Of Your Life

Author:Cate Blanchett

“When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.”

People Thinking Littles Sometimes Shows Might Running Night Courses Five Heard Fronts Changed Ten Percent Performances Every Night Theatrical Delivery

Author:Don Rickles

“It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.”

People Thinking Years Five Periods Ten Six Five Years Johnson

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!”

People Knows Sometimes Hours Five Four Ten Who I Am Twelve Suspicious

Author:Tom Baker

“Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.”

Children Today School White Cities Five Students Ten Areas Population Exception Urban Norm Inner City Urban Areas Inner City Schools

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.”

People Knows Years Firsts Five Television Cost Ten Scripts Reactions Budgets Novelists 80s Terrific

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.”

People World Opportunity Class Millions Economy Five Growing Middle Ten Seven Phones Population Britain Middle Class Mobile Nigeria Mobile Phones Growing Economy

Author:David Miliband

“I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.”

Thinking Two Reality Moving Five Comedy Minutes Ten Legs Speed Shells Session Turtles

Author:Garry Shandling

“My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.”

Years Firsts School Parent Five Generations Minutes Drama Ten Married Five Years Sixty My Generation Yale

Author:Lewis Black

“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.”

Real Father Five Nice Mines Ten Twenties Guitar Twenty Five Fourteen Carolina North Carolina Durham

Author:James Taylor

“Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.”

Thinking Feels I Can Guy Fall Five Ten Negative Response Falling In Love Crowds Educational Enormous Crush Reviews Wow Cents Fifteen This Guy Eighty Amazon Obnoxious

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”

Ifs Knows Two Know How Five Four Ten Working It

Author:Mae West

“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.”

People Thinking Years Age Next Five Ten Drinking Justification

Author:Amy Winehouse

“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.”

Firsts Doe Sometimes Helping Feelings Interesting Five Needed Ten Jokes Rhythm Guts Seconds Very Interesting Few Words Gut Feelings Wording

Author:Steven Wright

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

People Thinking Dies Five Ten Percent Eighty Willful Ignorance

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”

“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”

Ifs Years Real States Kids Five Ten Twenties Selling Cop Minors Dope Manslaughter

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.”

Looks Would Be Five Crazy Ten Jew Breasts Being Crazy Jewish History

Author:Mel Brooks

“Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more thorough once-over. He had dark wavy hair and warm brown eyes. Very Pat-rick Dempsey/McDreamy-esque. Good build, not terribly tall, maybe only five-ten-ish, but since Payton measured in at exactly five-three and one-third inch, she could work with this”

Giving Hands Eye Three Opportunity Dark Five Hair Ten Thirds Warm Brown Tall Inches Introduction Thorough Brown Eyes Mcdreamy

Book:Practice Makes Perfect

Source: Practice Makes Perfect

“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Giving Lasts Night Black Sleep White Poor Watches Rich Five Minutes Ten Folks Complaining Weather Life Lesson Five Minutes Last Night Can't Change Plowing

Author:Maya Angelou

“Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question." "D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern. "Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin.”

Thinking Giving Said Two Three Names Five Doors Fronts Ten Clothes Sitting Concern Crowds Excellent Tone Chairs Halls Werewolf Mock Entrances Front Doors Sirius Remus Lupin

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.”

Years Kind Names Bits Chance Five Thousand Ten Six Odds

Book:Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

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