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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Night, Years

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Death, Letting Go

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.

  Greg Ginn

  Dream, Real, Years

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• Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

  Shashi Tharoor

  Years, Elephants, Two

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• I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

  Stan Getz

  Eight, Years, Two

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• I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Years, Two, Desperate

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

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• My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Years, Two

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

  Kyle Chandler

  Football, School, Years

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

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• The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

  Khandi Alexander

  Years, Two, Giving

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• Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

  Rick Wakeman

  Years, Two, Left

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• All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fate, Years, Two

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• The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.

  Alaine Chartrand

  Home, Years, Two

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• Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Change, Past, Years

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.19, Chicago Review Press

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• For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

  John Amery

  Country, Fog, Years

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Military, Years, Two

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Mean, Years

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• Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Japan, Doors, Hands

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• It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

  Mike Thompson

  Years, Two, People

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• I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

  Paul Westerberg

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• I am excited about it. No-one really knows him [Kumar Sangakkara] as a person and everyone is looking forward to that. Getting to know players like Amla, Ponting and Smith has been special and this is great, because he [Sangakkara] is here for two years, it's no flash in the pan.

  Jason Roy

  Player, Years, Sri Lanka

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• You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

  Robert Greenwald

  Tunnels, Talking, Years

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

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• A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Years

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• The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

  Luc Montagnier

  Squares, Years, Two

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• I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

  Tabitha Soren

  Nbc, Years, Mtv

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