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• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  Victor Garber

  Strong, Team, Writing

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

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• It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.

  Demi Moore

  Mother, Moving, Heart

  "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.

  Andrew Hill

  Thinking, Sight, Oil

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• Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Heart, Depth, Six Months

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.34, Broadview Press

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• Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking.

  Kevin Bacon

  Games, Ideas, Degrees

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• Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fishes, and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. By the time I am 89, I shall have made more progress. By the time I am 90, I shall understand the deeper meaning of things. When I am 100, I shall be truly marvelous; and at 110 each dot and each line will possess a life of its own.

  Hokusai

  Passion, Animal, Years

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• Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Christian, Circles, White

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• I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.

  Leo Kottke

  Scary, Want, Nine

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• Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

  Tony Greig

  Anger, Taken, Years

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

  Faith Hill

  Inspirational, Good Day, Feet

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• I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Air, Oxygen

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• Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Mean, Email

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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• A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

  Millard Drexler

  Two, Smell, Select

  "The Merchant". Interview with Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Degrees, Magazines, Nine

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• We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being the company delivering the most positive change of any in our peer group, as we work to deliver our Turnaround and advance our six- to eight-year Action Agenda for transformational change.

  Fred Hassan

  Eight, Years, Challenges

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• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

  Bruce Chatwin

  Running, Children, Book

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.11, Penguin

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• If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

  Christopher McDougall

  Summer, Running, Animal

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.228, Profile Books

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

  Jim Cooper

  War, Iraq, Drug

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• Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

  Jim Cooper

  Years, Office, President

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• That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

  Robert Rodriguez

  Eye, Bed, Waste

  "Robert Rodriguez unleashes his Predators at last" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Mom, Kids, Parent

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• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

  Martin Zweig

  Fashion, Climbing, People

  Martin Zweig (2009). “Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street”, p.60, Hachette UK

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