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• 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

  Michael Moore

  Littles, Way, Dollars

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

  Michael Moore

  Guy, Three, Target

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Book, Men

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• I do like working out. I feel my best when I work out, but you know, I'm human. I like to ride my bicycle and lift weights and hike. When I am diligently working out, ideally, I like to work out four days a week. If I can do that, I feel good about myself.

  Shemar Moore

  Work Out, Feel Good, Weight

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

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• For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

  Alanis Morissette

  Coffee, Black, Six Months

  "Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health". www.cnn.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

  Jason Mraz

  Virginia, Four Seasons, Seasons

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• I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Dream, Morning

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

  Bill Murray

  Dance, Mom, Kids

  Bill Murray, George Peper (1999). “Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf”, Doubleday Books

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• It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Long, Important

  "Uberpreneurs: How to Create Innovative Global Businesses and Transform Human Societies". Book by Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood, December 8, 2013.

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• There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

  Elon Musk

  Animal, Important Events, Years

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

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• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Two, Squares, Long

  "Microsoft's Former CTO Takes on Modernist Cuisine" by Mark McClusky, www.wired.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  Rafael Nadal

  Careers, Clay, Lasts

  "Rafael Nadal - second round". Interview with L. Rosol, www.wimbledon.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Graham Nash

  Anniversary, Song, Emotional

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• At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

  Liam Neeson

  Sex, Biographies, Indiana

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• I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

  Stevie Nicks

  Long, Different, Botox

  "Nick of Time: Q&A With Stevie Nicks". Interview with Jacob Bernstein, wwd.com. March 31, 2009.

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• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

  Louis Nizer

  Kids, Responsibility, Men

  My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

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• I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and was instantly into it. During the first episode, I was like, 'Eh.' By the time I got to the second one, I couldn't watch them fast enough. I got on the phone that night, called Time Warner cable and ordered HBO right then.

  Denis O'Hare

  Night, Hbo, Phones

  "Denis O'Hare Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

  Denis O'Hare

  Blood, Feet, Fans

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• I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Fun, Thinking, Years

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• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Failure, Character

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Three, Looks

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

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Typewriters

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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Tyrants, People

  "The War on Libya and US Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama, 2011". Interview with Rick Rozoff, www.globalresearch.ca. March 28, 2011.

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• When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Writing, Years

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