Four Years Quotes - Page 10

• I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

  Herb Kelleher

  Baby, Airplane, Thinking

  "The "I Am" Q&A". "I Am American Business", www.cnbc.com.

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

  Gore Vidal

  Nice, Believe, Men

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Nice, Fall

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc

  Kate White

  Sex, Coffee, Average

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• At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, College, Agreement

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• I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

  Jacques Rogge

  Winter, Years, Games

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• After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

  Ron Chernow

  Hero, Years, Becoming

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• And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Years, Shooting, Four

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Ragtime: A Novel”, p.8, Random House

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• If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

  Mordecai Richler

  Writing, Years, Three

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• Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

  Lamar Hunt

  Years, Usa, America

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• University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.

  Peter Thiel

  Party, College, Years

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• Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you’ve broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair.

  Alexa Chung

  Kissing, Hair, Years

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• I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

  John Grier Hibben

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  Glenn Hughes

  Mom, Rocks, Guitar

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• Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

  Jim Rogers

  Investing Money, Years, Active Management

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• Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

  Jared Diamond

  Country, Years, Law

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• America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Years, America

  "How 'Government' Became A Dirty Word". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 1, 2012.

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• My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

  Michael Medved

  Years, Two, Four

  "The Michael Medved Show", September 07, 2004.

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, California

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• It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

  Rocky Bridges

  Years, Long, Four

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• I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

  Julie Taymor

  Mean, Self, Years

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Julie Taymor". "NOW on PBS" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2002.

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• I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

  Paul Haggis

  Years, Four, Thirty

  "The Apostate". www.newyorker.com. February 2011.

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• Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. That’s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didn’t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that we’re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesn’t have to define us as a human being. There’s so much more to being human than all of this.

  Raj Bhavsar

  Team, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

  Emir Kusturica

  New York, Airports, Years

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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