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• Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

  John Major

  Business, Giving, Debt

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• The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

  George Will

  Law, Firsts, Constitution

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• 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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• Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  Ree Drummond

  Running, Advertising, Ninety

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• I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

  Rick Danko

  New Year, Spring, Night

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

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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 also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  Edie Falco

  Night, Needs, Going Out

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• I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

  Maureen Forrester

  Husband, Children, Good Friend

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• When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

  Shenae Grimes

  Morning, Coffee, Care

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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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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Together, Three

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• Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

  Sue Grafton

  Numbers, Light, Two

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• Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Years, Half, Canada

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

  Chico Hamilton

  Years, Lasts, Productions

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• Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

  Chris Hughes

  Reading, Years, Majority

  "New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media" By Brian Stelter, Michael J. de la Merced, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

  Dhani Harrison

  Couple, Dad, Japan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Mean, Player, Years

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• China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Independent, Peaceful

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.

  Josh Holloway

  Reading, Who I Am, Sometimes

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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 run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.

  Richard Hammond

  Running, Mad, Trying

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

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• I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Senior, Mom, Friday

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• Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.

  Celia Imrie

  Children, Party, Race

  "The gentle art of showing off". Interview With Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

  Dot Jones

  Basketball, Volleyball, Couple

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