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• If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

  Bruce Willis

  Giving, Hussein, Give Me

  "Actor Willis' $1m Saddam Bounty". news.bbc.co.uk. September 26, 2003.

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• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  Brian Wilson

  Done, Hell, Minutes

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• I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

  Brian Wilson

  Voice, Bob, Freshman

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• I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

  Carnie Wilson

  Half, Weight, Nine

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• I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

  Flip Wilson

  Years, Umpires, Numbers

  "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.

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• Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Giving, Drug

  "Winehouse: Drink, Drugs And Me", www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2007.

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• Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

  James Wolcott

  Believe, Reading, Writing

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• On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

  Tom Wolfe

  Wall, Business, Three

  The Bonfire of the Vanities ch. 1 (1987). Ellipsis in the original.Wolfe took the phrase "Masters of the Universe" from a name used in the early 1980s for action figures by the Mattel toy company and in a related television cartoon show.

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• To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

  Tiger Woods

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Book, Writing, Building

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, Gambling, People

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• Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.

  Steven Wright

  People, Laughing, Stills

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• I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

  will.i.am

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Neil Young

  Country, Rights, Years

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• I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Money, Motivation

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• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Men, Priorities

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Pages, Use, World

  "Letter From Mark Zuckerberg". Letter to Facebook's shareholders, www.sec.gov. February 1, 2012.

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• Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Games, Nerves, Lasts

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• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  Felicia Day

  Coffee, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

  Alber Elbaz

  Moving, Creating, Desire

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• From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

  Helen Fisher

  Believe, Fall, People

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". Article by Helen Fisher, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Numbers, Lists, Fans

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• I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

  Tucker Max

  Artist, Want, Periods

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• I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

  Helen McCrory

  Lying, Sleep, Feel Better

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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