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• Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

  Glenn Beck

  Morning, America, Be Kind

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• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  Victoria Beckham

  Girl, People, Spices

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Broken, Tea, Add

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• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Food

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2018

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• I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Believe, Night, Healthy

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• My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Mother, Divorce, Parent

  Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

  Mayim Bialik

  Crazy, Sleep, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Crazy, Night

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• Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Twenties, Hours

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.603, Library of America

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• There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

  Ambrose Bierce (1997). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce”, p.139, Рипол Классик

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• I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Believe, Years, Long

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• I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

  Sara Blakely

  Karma, Shopping, Giving

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• There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, America, People

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• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

  Usain Bolt

  Years, Waiting, Champion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Inspiration, Power

  Cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

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• My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

  Edward de Bono

  Fighting, Thinking, Lessons

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Cat, Differences

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

  Danny Boyle

  Three, Minutes, Pops

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

  Jo Brand

  Pills, Stones, Contraceptives

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• I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

  Jo Brand

  Giving Up, Three, Gigs

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

  Richard Branson

  Mother, Home, Independent

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kids, Faces, Hunger

  "David Axelrod on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2010.

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