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• The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

  Mario Batali

  Order, Years, Remember

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  Samantha Bee

  Gambling, Years, People

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• I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

  Ben Bernanke

  Coffee, Responsibility, Years

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• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  Orlando Bloom

  Angel, Samurai, Saws

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• What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Feet, President, Doe

  "Bloomberg’s Day" by Micah Sifry, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

  James Blunt

  Taken, Inspiration, School

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• I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Long, Parent

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• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Writing, Seven Days

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• Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Years, Forever

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

  Steve Buscemi

  Television, Seven Days, Hours

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, Believe, Health

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

  Robert Carlyle

  Light, Years, Childhood

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

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• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Kings

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• I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

  Jean Cocteau

  Friendship, Realizing, Mercy

  Vogue, May 1984.

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• Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Night, Islands

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.41

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• I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Real, Agents, Estates

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• Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

  Billy Corgan

  Guitar, Layers, Kind

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• Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

  Penelope Cruz

  Morning, Giving, Feelings

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• Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

  John Cusack

  Gun, Law, Insane

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• I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

  Roald Dahl

  Dark, Eight, Littles

  "Great dynasties of the world: The Dahls" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Witty, Work

  1942 The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|¤, prologue.

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• I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

  Larry David

  Writing, Eight, Actors

  "Larry David: More Enthusiasm, Curbed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 23, 2005.

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• My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.

  Les Dawson

  Christmas, Mother, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

  Marlene Dietrich

  I Love You, Broken Heart, Love Is

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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