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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Wife, Twenties

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• The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Men

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• I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Writing, Tired

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• Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Thinking, Weakness

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• My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mother, Sadness, Cry

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• According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.

  Barry Sanders

  Literature, World, Today

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• A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Years

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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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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• One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Six, Life Is, Farming

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Two, Different, Asking

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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 feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

  Olga Korbut

  Years, Twenties, Three

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• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  Larry Niven

  Kicking, Stories, Six

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.

  Greil Marcus

  Moving, Teaching, Mouths

  "Greil Marcus examines culture through prism of pop" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. October 30, 2011.

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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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• It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

  Dylan McDermott

  Father, Years, Car

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• Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Perfect, Important

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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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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• If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Thinking, Two, People

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

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• I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

  Bill Pullman

  Trying, Remember, Projects

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

  Dave Eggers

  Stuck, Documents, Ifs

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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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