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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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What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

Ted Cruz

Strong, Character, Thinking

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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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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

M. Ward

Artist, Years, Careers

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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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It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

Kids, Years, Add

Twitter post from Jul 03, 2010

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Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

Gene Cernan

Book, Space, Accomplishment

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The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

Gene Cernan

Anchors, Two, Three

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When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

Jencarlos Canela

Party, Blue, Big Families

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People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

Mark Consuelos

Jobs, Home, Wife

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So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

Writing, Eight, Guitar

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I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

Aravind Adiga

New York, Years, Psychics

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I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

Patrick Carney

Blue, Green, Six

"The GQA: The Black Keys". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. March 28, 2012.

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When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Pauline Collins

Teacher, Years, Acting

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Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.

Howard Coble

Class, House, Bills

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When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

John Corbett

Thinking, Auditions, Six

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I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

Len Cariou

Church, Cracks, Paper

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Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

Gil Gerard

Writing, Stuff, Projects

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Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

Joe Grant

Four, Want, Pixar

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If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

Jessica Alba

Jobs, Struggle, Kids

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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

Monica Ali

Children, Writing, Holiday

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I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Song, Father, Years

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The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Spencer Abraham

School, America, Ratios

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I made my first movie when I was five.

Abigail Breslin

Firsts, Made

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For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

Douglas Booth

Book, Reading, Thinking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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