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• As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

  Jenny Eclair

  Years, Berlin, England

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• The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

  David Riesman

  Car, Bankers, Week

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.244, Transaction Publishers

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• One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

  Patty Duke

  Children, School, Kids

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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• Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

  Marie de France

  Names, Letters, Firsts

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

  Lester Bangs

  Couple, Mean, Independent

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

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• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Boys, Emotional

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• My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

  Dwight Gooden

  Baseball, Years, Two

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• I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

  Alice James

  Believe, Twenties, Compliment

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  Larry Niven

  Years, Names, Six

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Talking, Causes

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• I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

  Helena Christensen

  Ocean, Sharks, Broken

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

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• The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

  Bill Dixon

  Player, Magic, Musician

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

  Howard Stern

  Air, Hours, Dangerous

  "People" by Simon Goodley, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2005.

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• In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

  Wim Wenders

  Four, Film, Late

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

  Bjorn Borg

  Friday, Running, Monday

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• It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

  Stefan Edberg

  Years, Two, Finals

  "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.

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• Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Brother, Husband

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Twenties, Different

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• I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Mean, Phones, Cells

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• The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Atheist, Stars, Dad

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• Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

  Pratibha Patil

  Years, Feelings, President

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• Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

  Steve Berry

  Writing, Voice, Majority

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• It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Sex, Cutting, Long

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• You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

  Emilia Clarke

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Alfie Allen & Emilia Clarke chat 'Game Of Thrones'". www.digitalspy.com. April 12, 2011.

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