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• I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

  Amanda Seyfried

  School, Different, Prom

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• I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pay, Mark, Tribute

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• Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hair, Tails, Rats

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• The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

  Alan Shepard

  Feet, Firsts, Planes

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• I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming - and I do it four times a week.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Week, Stairs, Treadmills

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• If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Years

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• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  Nate Silver

  Years, Broken, Presidential

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• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

  Shel Silverstein

  Reading, Journey, Years

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• Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Done, Concerts

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Reviews

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

  Arthur Smith

  Years, Looks, Like You

  "Carry on gurning" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2002.

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• I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Parent, Three

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

  Patti Smith

  House Of Cards, Years, Three

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Book, Years

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

  Hope Solo

  Years, World, Olympics

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• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  Hal Sparks

  Running, Growing Up, Kids

  "Hal Sparks, ‘Gay-Adjacent’ Star of Queer As Folk , Explains Why He Supports LGBT Equality" by Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Three, Littles

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• It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

  Gertrude Stein

  Night, Sister In Law, Years

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.8, Random House

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• Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

  John Steinbeck

  Hair, Feet, Hoarse Voice

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Years, Political, Sometimes

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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• I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

  Kristen Stewart

  College, Thinking, Years

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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Book, Men, Events

  "Holding the Hammer: JMS Talks Thor". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 17, 2008.

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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