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• You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

  Colin Powell

  Father, Philadelphia, House

  "Colin Powell reflects on endorsing Obama in 2008". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

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

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• I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

  Elvis Presley

  Jackie, Shows, Ed Sullivan

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• The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers.

  Maggie Q

  Thinking, Years, Meat Industry

  "‘Nikita’ Star Maggie Q On What’s Ahead In Season 3 And Her New PETA Campaign". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Football, Play, Ideas

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• I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Groups

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• There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Girl, Guy, Political

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• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)

  Ramakrishna

  Travel, Earth, Quarters

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna".

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• Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Years, Batteries, Uptown

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• I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

  Rachael Ray

  Birthday, Mother, Cake

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• I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

  Satyajit Ray

  Waiting, Mind, Salary

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Strength, Peace

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

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• Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sports, Football, College

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

  Robert Redford

  Horse, Space, Mountain

  "Free at Last: The Robert Redford Story". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

  Keanu Reeves

  Inspirational, Dance, Training

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• I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

  John C. Reilly

  Jobs, Fun, Father

  "John C. Reilly: this much I know" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2013.

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• Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

  Ryan Reynolds

  Believe, New Orleans, Sitting

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• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Character, Imagination, Independence

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• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Marriage, Legs, Bed

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• When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.

  Julia Roberts

  Eye, Hair, Doors

  "Julia Roberts interview: "I don't work a lot now that I'm a desperately fulfilled housewife"". www.mirror.co.uk. August 13, 2010.

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• Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.

  Kid Rock

  Senior, Morning, Mistake

  "Kid Rock: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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