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• I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hands, Years, Two

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• Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

  Peter King

  Islamic, Years, America

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• I don't like people being rude. Bad manners and arrogance make me cross. People making others feel uncomfortable. And I really don't like it in restaurants when people are rude or patronising to waiters. I feel like saying, 'They're not your slave'. But my knees only shake around once every five years. You're safe, don't worry.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Years, Worry, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Years, Giving

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

  Ross Perot

  Country, War, Years

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• During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Years, Names

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• I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

  Ken Thompson

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

  John Carpenter

  Years, Long, Tvs

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

  John Dyer

  Years, Degrees, Different

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• The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

  Oscar Straus

  Country, Father, Race

  Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”

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• I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

  Jack London

  Years, Drunk, Firsts

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Running, Horse

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• I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Years, Giving

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

  Danny Brown

  Years, America, Five

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

  Patrice Leconte

  Writing, Mirrors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  School, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Art, Years, Magic

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• I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Years, World, Able

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• I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!

  Gillian Jacobs

  Real, Ideas, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Years, Three, Four

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

  Liam Gallagher

  Years, Band, Five

  "Beady Eye rises from ashes of Oasis implosion". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 16, 2011.

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