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• An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

  Apolo Ohno

  Years, Preparation, Three

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Small Hands, Broken

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• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  Yoko Ono

  Mother, School, Years

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Winter, Ohio

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

  Joel Osteen

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Years, Games

  "Owen relies on honest approach to mean streets" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.

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• You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

  Mehmet Oz

  Coffee, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "16 Quick Questions for Dr. Oz" by Mehmet Oz and Joel Harper, www.esquire.com. October 4, 2007.

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• I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Animal, Bird, Cheese

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• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  Paracelsus

  Philosophy, Medicine, Pillars

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  Talcott Parsons

  Missing, Three, Variables

  TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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• I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

  Dolly Parton

  Fire, Complaining, Firsts

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010

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• I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Friendship, Gossip, World

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• I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Joy, Seven Days

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• Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Work, Believe

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• I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Love Life, Sacrifice

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• We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

  Rick Perry

  Years, President, Administration

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• I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.

  Tyler Perry

  Hard Work, Years, Giving

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• It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

  Tyler Perry

  Hollywood, Three, Week

  "Tyler Perry, Movie Mogul". Interview with Sheryl Garratt, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Children, Years

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

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• Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

  Jodi Picoult

  Suicide, Teenager, Gay

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• A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Six, Week, Break

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

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• Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Human Nature, Humans

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Morning, Wall, Night

  Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Funny, Change, Humorous

  "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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