Five Years Quotes

• If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Want, Today

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• If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

  Hokusai

  Artist, Years, Giving

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• I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

  David Campese

  Years, Firsts, Rugby

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• Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Mean, Player, Years

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• Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Oddities, Years

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

  Thomas Beecham

  Years, Age, Population

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• There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

  Eric Alterman

  Lying, Cutting, Offering

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• When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

  Pauline Collins

  Teacher, Years, Acting

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• Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

  Sharon Creech

  Children, Real, Philosophical

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• I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

  Kenny Chesney

  Thinking, Years, Balance

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• Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

  Russ Carnahan

  Years, Oil, Energy

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• I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

  Jenna Fischer

  New Year, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Dukes of Hazzard? Me? I mean, hello?" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Years, Want

  "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

  Rob Portman

  Strong, Years, Records

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Song, Years, People

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• There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

  Mary Roach

  Years, People, Mars

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• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  Tania Raymonde

  Years, Four, Grew Up

  "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

  Karrine Steffans

  Book, Writing, School

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, College, Years

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

  Shepard Smith

  Years, News, Happens

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• I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

  Alan Vega

  Couple, Years, Able

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• You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

  Burt Ward

  Maturity, Years, Balance

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• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  Dominic West

  Years, Next, Auditions

  "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

  Nik Wallenda

  Years, Three, World

  "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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