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• Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

  Rachel Maddow

  School, Years, Car

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", April 03, 2009.

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• The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that its different somehow. Its not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

  Tony Oliva

  Change, Running, Believe

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• I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Years, Newborn Child

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1984). “Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist”, p.11, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Sex, Jealous, Player

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• The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Growth

  "Global Temperature Update Through 2012" by James Hansen, M. Sato and R. Ruedy, January 15, 2013.

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• The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Lasts

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Children, Past, Years

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• ...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.

  Alice Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Son

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• I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

  Ayn Rand

  Years, Games, Political

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• In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

  Philip Gibbs

  Running, Years, Car

  Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

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• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

  Yukio Mishima

  Writing, Expression, Years

  "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters". Biography, www.imdb.com. September 12, 1985.

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• In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, Diversity, Michigan

  Jennifer Granholm, Daniel Granholm Mulhern (2011). “A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future”, p.74, PublicAffairs

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• Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America, land of the sodomite damned. We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, for answering the prayers of those that are under the altar.

  Fred Phelps

  Prayer, Wrath, Years

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

  Ralph Kiner

  Years, Fame, Strawberries

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• The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

  Chuck Barris

  Uncles, Years, Guy

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• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now

  Karrie Webb

  Dream, Believe, Years

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• I've never had a five-year plan or a three-year plan, or whatever, ... We had an idea philosophically of what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Years, Ideas, Three

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• The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.

  James Laver

  Beautiful, Smart, Years

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• When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

  Debra Wilson

  Years, Wanted, Five Year Olds

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• I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

  Megan Gallagher

  Years, Parent, Acting

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• Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

  David LaMotte

  Past, Generous Spirit, Discovery

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• It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!

  Catherine Crier

  Moving, Years, Tuning

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• I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

  Ben Katchor

  Spiritual, Religious, Years

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