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• My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

  Billy Corgan

  Mother, Years, Theme

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• You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

  Billy Corgan

  Way, Damage, Pumpkin

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• The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

  Ann Coulter

  Florida, Finals, Literature

  "Coulter: Liberals are evil" by Bobby Eagle, www.freerepublic.com. April 6, 2006.

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• Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

  Ann Coulter

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Team, Organization

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• I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Feel Better, Work Out

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

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• I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

  Black Elk

  Summer, Thinking, Years

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

  Black Elk

  Horse, Animal, Numbers

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Oath Of Office, Years, America

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

  Eminem

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

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• I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

  Paloma Faith

  Years, Age, Firsts

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• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  Paloma Faith

  Scotch, Eggs, Meals

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

  Feist

  Fun, Stupid, Crazy

  "Headed for the top". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• I have three brothers; I'm the youngest of four.

  Tom Felton

  Brother, Three Brothers, Three

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• Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Believe, Winning

  "This time it's for Rio". Interview with Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

  Alex Ferguson

  Horse, Two, Majesty

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• I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

  Will Ferrell

  Funny, Thinking, Comedy

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• I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

  Tina Fey

  Stars, Team, Gay

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

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• College was the greatest four years of my life.

  Jennie Finch

  College, Years, Four Years

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• They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

  Ray Floyd

  Funny, Taken, Golf

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• Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

  Joshua Foer

  Growing Up, Heart, Phones

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.100, Penguin

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• I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Yoga, People

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Curiosity, Mind

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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