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• I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Mean, Years, Ugly

  "Khloe Kardashian talks body image, weight in LOVE Magazine interview: 'I'm the ugly, fat sister'" by Joyce Chen, www.nydailynews.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Feet, Dresses, Needs

  "Keeping Up With Style". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Scientists say over the next hundred years, the coast of California will sink almost five feet. So the presidential candidates need to do something. Mitt Romney is conflicted. On one hand, he denies that global warming exists. But if California is under water, he would definitely win the next election.

  Craig Ferguson

  Winning, Hands, Years

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• Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

  Mariska Hargitay

  Girl, Children, School

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• I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

  Ron Moody

  Age, Actors, Wanted

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• Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

  Georgia Cates

  Different, Normal, Yeah

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• We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

  Peter Forsberg

  Sports, Thinking, Practice

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• The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on...This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Dna, Years

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• How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Divorce, Important, Four

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• You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Writing, Years, Generosity

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• Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Loneliness, Boys

  Elisabeth Elliot (1999). “Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey”, Baker Publishing Group

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• There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, "That can really be fun when it's working." But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing Talk Soup and Later at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.

  Greg Kinnear

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Forever, Looks, May

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• Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

  Leo Beenhakker

  Football, Games, Two

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• During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Dream, Mistake, Past

  "Lindsay Lohan Misses 'Ellen' Playboy Appearance" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. December 31, 2011.

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• If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.

  Saul Williams

  Eye, Poetry, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Medicine, Poetry, Excellence

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• My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

  Greg Norman

  Lying, Golf, Doctors

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

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• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Years, Europe, Four

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• Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Dark, Night

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• The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.

  Ivan Illich

  Dark, Drug, Suffering

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• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Fog, Two, Theatre

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  Cab Calloway

  Morning, Fog, Four

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• In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

  Ward Churchill

  Israel, Years, Punishment

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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