Five Years Quotes - Page 21

• In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

  Lou Holtz

  Responsibility, Rights, Years

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• Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

  Chanel Iman

  Work, Thinking, Years

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• I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

  Hugh Jackman

  Years, Play, Stage

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 29, 2003.

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• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

  Hugh Jackman

  Years, Careers, Goal

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Oct 05, 2011

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• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  Etta James

  Girl, Years, People

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• Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

  Etta James

  Years, Sitting Down, Used

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• If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

  Wyclef Jean

  Country, Mean, Rights

  "Wyclef Jean: The pop star who would be president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Apples, Five

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Moving, Winning, Cowboy

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• We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Boys, Years, Gone

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• In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Years, Office

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Real, Humorous

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Years, Discrepancies Between, Culture

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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• Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

  Michael Landon

  Years, Alive, Patient

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• For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

  Christian Louboutin

  Years, People, Want

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• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Two, People

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• I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Cities, House

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Years, Fans

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• It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.

  Harvey Mackay

  Nice, Years, People

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• I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

  Paul McCartney

  Years, Ideas, Looks

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• One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Years, Special, Events

  "Matthew McConaughey, ‘Magic Mike’ Star, On ‘The Year Of McConaughey’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

  Paul Merton

  School, Past, Years

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