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• How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Feet

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• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

  Walter Cronkite

  Doctors, Years, Play

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• The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Doors, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Reason, Beats, Minutes

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• Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Eight, Years

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Average, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.

  Marc Forgione

  Two, Kitchen, Lines

  "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Giving Up, Persistence

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Illumination, Years

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• Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Family Relationship

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• All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

  Elton John

  Jobs, Work, Week

  Song: Rocket Man '03

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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Moving, Men

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 180), March 6, 1995.

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• The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.

  Ricky Gervais

  Kids, Class, People

  "Ricky Gervais Calls CEMETERY JUNCTION His SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Plus Info on His New HBO Animated Series". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.

  Guy Pearce

  Running, Mean, Eight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

  Gwen Ifill

  Kids, Income, Segregation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

  Iris Apfel

  Art, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

  David Ayer

  People, Tanks, Individual

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  Randy Schekman

  Three, Cards, Catalogues

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• For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

  Brendan O'Carroll

  People, Pieces, Middle Of Nowhere

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

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• I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'

  Eva Mozes Kor

  Morning, Doctors, Two

  "Auschwitz: the Nazis & The 'Final Solution'". Book by Laurence Rees (p. 89), 2005.

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• Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends.

  Jeff Olson

  Average, Income, Equal

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.196, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

  Edward Bach

  Art, Healing, Years

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Dad, Home, Years

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• Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

  Theophilus London

  Thirty, Percent

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