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• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

  Robert Caro

  Party, Two, Years

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• A committee is an animal with four back legs.

  John le Carre

  Animal, Legs, Committees

  1974 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, pt.3, ch.34.

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• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Birthday, Hypocrisy, Might

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, Oberon Books Limited

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• Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

  Johnny Carson

  New York, Humorous, Taken

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• The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

  Graydon Carter

  Kids, Vanity, Editing

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Inspiration, Humor, Glasses

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11 (p. 169), November 1999.

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• I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, War, Average

  "Interview with Former President Jimmy Carter". "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 18, 2012.

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• One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

  June Carter Cash

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Morning

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• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

  Dick Cavett

  Dirty, Naughty, Mind

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• Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

  Will Champion

  Trying, Great Music, Four Friends

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• It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Long, Three

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• I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

  Dick Cheney

  Change, Work, Two

  "Transcript Part III: Cheney, Edwards discuss qualities of a VP". Debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, Years, Two

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• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  Laurel Clark

  Beautiful, Memories, Motherhood

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• President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me, now. No president - no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, President, Damage

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

  Joan Collins

  Reading, School, Thinking

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• But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

  Joan Collins

  Girl, Giving Up, Party

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• I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

  Phil Collins

  Cousin, Rifles, Fantastic

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• I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

  Phil Collins

  Night, Voice, Listening

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• If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Horse, Winning, Thinking

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• Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

  Mason Cooley

  Blessing, Meals, Three

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• Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Political, Politics

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• Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Three, Mets

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

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• I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Window Shopping

  "Jus' Like That" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2003.

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