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• The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Basketball, Doe

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 30, 2016

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• I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fire, Body, Letters

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• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Government, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, War, Skills

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• I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Years, People

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Wall, Women

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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• Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Integrity, Character, Agreement

  "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". Interview with Ellen DeGeneres, www.oprah.com. October 2001.

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• There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Queens, Biggie, Eras

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• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Party, People, Noise

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• Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Moving, College

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Responsibility, Men

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Jobs, Men

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Years, Class

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Issues, Promise

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Years, Ironic

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• Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

  Jerry Saltz

  Bottles, Littles, Vases

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• One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Pay, Corporations, Taxes

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

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• I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Driving, Said

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• Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

  Gus Van Sant

  Brother, Character, Kids

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• My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mother, Hard Work, Math

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• I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Home, Espresso

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• Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Eye, Two, People

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• When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

  Vin Scully

  Years, Pieces, Legs

  "Dodgers’ Vin Scully ‘One on One’ From the Booth". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2009.

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• The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Laughter, Fun, Strangers And Friends

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