Five Quotes - Page 7

• We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

  Laura Dave

  Memories, Years, Brain

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

  Sara Blakely

  Motivational, Brother, Children

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• If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

  Brenda Ueland

  Mother, Children, Doors

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.

  Bettie Page

  Four, Pay, Bondage

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Apr 13, 2013

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• You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

  Alfred Brendel

  Hands, Play, Three

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• If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

  Weegee

  Cutting, Two, Criminals

  Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.

  Eric Newby

  Two, May, Way

  Eric Newby (1966). “Slowly Down the Ganges”

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• If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

  Hokusai

  Real, Years, Giving

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• If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

  Hokusai

  Artist, Years, Giving

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• Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Kids, Should Have, Years

  Heather Gudenkauf (2013). “The Weight of Silence: A Novel of Suspense”, p.217, Harlequin

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• You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

  Mary Meeker

  Three, Enthusiasm, Internet

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• Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  Harold Pinter

  Past, Years, Earth

  Harold Pinter (2013). “The Homecoming”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

  Jack Canfield

  Moving, Writing, San Francisco

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• Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

  Paul Newman

  Salad Dressing, Who I Am, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

  Earl Nightingale

  Years, Growth, Experts

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

  John C. Malone

  Money, Dollars, Three

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• In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

  Farouk of Egypt

  Kings, Years, Cards

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• This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Play, Records

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• I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

  Romano Prodi

  Years, President, Want

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• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Missing You, Sleep, Training

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• Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.

  James R. Schlesinger

  Mean, Years, Oil

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• Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

  Nicki Minaj

  Population, Bragging, Conversation

  Song: Muny, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Years, World, Success In Life

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• I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Cutting, Wind

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