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• Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Writing, Years, Thirty

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Dropping Out, Six, Historic

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• Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, Presidential, Library

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• The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

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• If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Retirement, Future

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 27, 2016

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• If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

  Jim Rohn

  Regret, Dust, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 05, 2016

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• You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Writing, Imagination, Creative

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• The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.

  Debbie Ford

  Letting Go, Soul, Evolution

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• Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Defining

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• You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

  Burt Munro

  Life, People, Motorcycle

  "Fictional character: Burt Munro". "The World's Fastest Indian", 2005.

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• I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Children, Sleep, Hair

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.240, Crown Archetype

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• We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Dream, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 30, 2012

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• The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

  Charles Bukowski

  Giving, Mad, Alternatives

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

  Warren Adler

  Morning, Writing, Careers

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• We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

  Jessica Zafra

  People, Guy, Theatre

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Purple, Insane

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• I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

  Gillian Flynn

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Land

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Tape, Fundamentals

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• The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Regret, Government, Years

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• There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.

  Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

  Christian, People, Four

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• The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I’ll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando’s

  Christopher Poole

  People, Fans, Cards

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• If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

  Jay Samit

  Years, Want, Knows

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2016

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• I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

  C. Everett Koop

  Children, Doctors, Justice

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