Four Years Quotes - Page 19

• When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Years, Trying, Next

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• If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

  Charles Kettering

  Teaching, Engineering, Years

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• The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

  Brian Johnson

  Years, People, Four

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• I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, Book, Years

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, America, World

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• When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

  Shane Warne

  Years, Four, Likelihood

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• I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

  Paris Hilton

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Errors, Years

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• A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

  Robert Genn

  Education, Book, Artist

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• Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.

  John Muir

  Latin, Science, Years

  John Muir (2006). “Essential Muir”, Heyday

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• They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Four years and everything was the same, except me.

  Mark Lawrence

  Years, Four

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.81, Penguin

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Years, Liquid

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• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  Jack Germond

  Years, Attention, American Voters

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• We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.

  Rita Rudner

  Moving, Years, Careers

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Husband, Children, Teenager

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• The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Years, Going Away, President

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• One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.

  Rex Stout

  Years, Numbers, President

  "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing". Israel Shenker interview, December 1, 1971.

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• After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

  John F. Kerry

  Order, Years, Giving

  John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.

  Will Cuppy

  Years, Whales, Two

  "The Whale". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Father, Reading

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.

  Edward Heath

  Eight, Government, Years

  Interview, 1982.

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• The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.

  Mario Savio

  Mean, Years, Games

  "An End To History". Humanity magazine, www.historyisaweapon.com. December 1964.

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• When [my friend] had her kid, she was like, "9:30?! I'm not living in Barcelona. I need dinner at 6." I never got that until now. Four years ago, when I met her, I thought that was extreme. I was like, "I love Barcelona!" Now, I'm so mad when someone suggests an 8 pm reservation because that means we won't eat until 8:30 or 9 pm. Forget it!

  Drew Barrymore

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore Talk Blended, Their Evolving Friendship and Chemistry, Their Families, Making Comedies with Heart, and Parenting". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 20, 2014.

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