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• Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

  Groucho Marx

  Running, Children, Years

  Duck Soup (motion picture) (1933). Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

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• Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, School, Support

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

  Andre Maurois

  Freedom, Learning, Simple

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• I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

  John Mayer

  School, Blessing, Years

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• I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

  Marissa Mayer

  Vacation, Long, Pace

  "How I Work". Interview with David Kirkpatrick, money.cnn.com. 2006.

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• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

  Paul McCartney

  People, Great Beatles

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• The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

  Mitch McConnell

  Years, Usa, Debt

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• I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

  George McGovern

  Tired, Sleep, Eight

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• If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

  Ewan McGregor

  Fall, Years, Want

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• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  Danica McKellar

  Jobs, Math, Media

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• Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

  Jon Meacham

  War, President, Thumbs

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• People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

  John Mellencamp

  Years, People, Indiana

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• The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

  David Millar

  Car, Firsts, First Time

  "This much I know: David Millar". Interview with Martin Love, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

  Wentworth Miller

  Preparation, Shooting, Months

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• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  Yuri Milner

  Russia, Social Network, Poland

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• My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

  Nicki Minaj

  Years, Calling, Close Friends

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I have bigger balls than the boys'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.

  Helen Mirren

  Flower, Adventure, Thinking

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• Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Editing, Self

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• My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

  Joni Mitchell

  Next, Firsts, Usual

  "It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni". Interview With Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.

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• The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Numbers, People, Perfect

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• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Country, Travel, Kids

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• I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

  Cory Monteith

  Airports, Rome, Boards

  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

  Alan Moore

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

  Michael Moore

  Jesus, Use, Homosexual

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

  Michael Moore

  Brother, Two, Feet

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