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• I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

  Sarah Brightman

  Years, Challenges, Fruition

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• I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

  Sarah Brightman

  Thinking, Three, Ifs

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• Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

  Albert Brooks

  Dog, Lazy, Acting

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• For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Months, Patient

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• When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

  Chris Brown

  Christmas, Four Wheelers, Trampolines

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

  Dave Brubeck

  Dad, School, Years

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• I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

  Kobe Bryant

  Dog

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• I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

  Sophia Bush

  Men, Hbo, House

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• Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Unique, Trying, Different

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• I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

  Smedley Butler

  Country, Military, Marine

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  A. S. Byatt

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

  Robert Byrd

  Family, Wall, Things In Life

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Music, Eight

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• Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

  Michael Caine

  Class, Lectures, Hours

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• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Life, Inspire, Three

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• I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

  Tony Campolo

  Believe, Hard Times, Twenties

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• Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

  Tony Campolo

  White, America, House

  "The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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• If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.

  Tony Campolo

  Jobs, Years, Names

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• I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

  Robert Carlyle

  Change, Character, Years

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

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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Communication

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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