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• I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Children, Men

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

  Karrine Steffans

  Book, Writing, School

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Oddities, Years

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

  Derek Jacobi

  Summer, Winter, Years

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• I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

  Lloyd deMause

  Years, Political, Ignorant

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Eight, Years

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• When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

  David Gemmell

  War, Years, Handy

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.

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• It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

  Ray Nagin

  New York, Years, Cities

  "Ray Nagin Takes Swipe at NYC 9/11 Rebuilding Efforts". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. August 26, 2006.

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• I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Party, Years

  "Holly Madison Reveals How Pregnancy Has Changed Her (for the Better!)". Interview with Elena Donovan Mauer, www.thebump.com. January 15, 2013.

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• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  Dominic West

  Years, Next, Auditions

  "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

  Shepard Smith

  Years, News, Happens

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Song, Years, People

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• I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Years, Want

  "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

  Kenny Chesney

  Thinking, Years, Balance

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• There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

  Eric Alterman

  Lying, Cutting, Offering

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• I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Brother, Thinking

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Some people are saying that the reason Michael Phelps isn't doing so well is because he let himself get too out of shape. I just have to say that I have been watching the Olympics, and if that guy is out of shape, I have been dead for five years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, London Olympics, Years

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• I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Years, Together

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• I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Growth, Pipeline

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• Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Years, Long

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• When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!

  Ed Engle

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.34, Stackpole Books

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• For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Rocks, Years, Hip Hop

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• Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.

  David Bottoms

  Fall, Sleep, Self

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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