Five Years Quotes - Page 39

• All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

  David Cassidy

  Distance, Years, Done

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• I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

  Colin Farrell

  Believe, Home, Son

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• I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

  Stedman Graham

  Years, Prison, Folks

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• You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

  Nadia Giosia

  Years, Cooking, Looks

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• For the last five years I've been in the production business.

  Chico Hamilton

  Years, Lasts, Five

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• Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

  Nikki Haley

  Years, Parent, South Carolina

  Nikki Haley RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

  Tom Kristensen

  Humble, Thinking, Japan

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

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• I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

  Joe Mantegna

  Years, Lasts, Twenties

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• Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

  Jay Sekulow

  Years, Campaign Finance, Regulation

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• I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Years, Discipline, Labs

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.

  Katie Leclerc

  Jobs, Coffee, Years

  "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Silly, Years, Play

  "Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. November 10, 2005.

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• The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

  Mike McCready

  Average, Years, Long

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• Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.

  Todd McFarlane

  Children, Years, Three

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• Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

  Chris Noth

  Order, Years, Law

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

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• I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Unique, Years, Cbc

  "Canadian Reality Show About Ex-Cons Gives Host Kevin O'Leary an Extreme Makeover" by Etan Vlessing, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2011.

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• After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

  Cat Power

  Self Esteem, Years, Play

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

  Kay Panabaker

  Mom, Years, Parent

  "Kay Panabaker Interview NO ORDINARY FAMILY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

  Kay Panabaker

  Jobs, Giving Up, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

  John Hodgman

  Stars, Believe, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Thinking, Years

  People magazine, p. 49, March 7-14, 1994.

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• A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

  Paul Krugman

  Past, Technology, Years

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• I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.

  Francois Hollande

  Years, Feet, Able

  "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2012.

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• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Running, Years, Sweat

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• When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Writing, Years, Parent

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