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• Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

  Jojo Moyes

  Real, Years, Two

  Jojo Moyes (2014). “The One Plus One”, p.343, Penguin UK

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• This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.7, Booklassic

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• I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Character, Years

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• Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Sex, Years, Two

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• The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

  Hilary Swank

  Character, Years, Play

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

  Lauren Hutton

  Years, Two, Hot

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• It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Travel, Believe, Home

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• Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

  Mary Lasswell

  Travel, Home, Two

  Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.

  Ringo Starr

  Stars, Years, Two

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Building Up, Two

  "Interview With President Obama". "60 Minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. December 11, 2011.

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• I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.

  Bill Maher

  Hard Times, Years, Two

  Source: www.tucsonweekly.com

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• When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

  Pete Seeger

  School, Years, Play

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Girl, Past, Years

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• I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

  Amber Riley

  Years, Two, Ikea

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

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• Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

  Emma Roberts

  Husband, Sleep, Thinking

  "Exclusive Emma Roberts Interview". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2011.

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• The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

  Oscar Wilde

  Years, Two, Hard

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• I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

  Carla Hall

  Mom, Mother, Cancer

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• If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Beautiful, Years, Careers

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• For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.

  Jeremy Miller

  Party, Adventure, Years

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• I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

  Fred Armisen

  Years, Two, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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