Four Years Quotes - Page 24

• I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Ideas, Years

  Source: sites.google.com

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• I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

  Agnes Varda

  Years, Ideas, Important

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Victoria Beckham looks like she has a dump once every four years. That's probably how David knows that there's a World Cup coming up.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.

  Rita Gelman

  Airplane, Men, Islands

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• I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Writing, Years, Four

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• In Britain I focus on my horse riding. I ride everyday no matter what. I have a wonderful trainer called Joe Meyer. He is from New Zealand and competed in the World Games this year. I have been with him for four years and we have a good rapport.

  Liz Halliday

  Horse, Years, Games

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.

  Chika Anadu

  School, Years, People

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Government, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

  Julie Taymor

  Years, Magic, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

  Ronaldo

  Soccer, Sex, Years

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Sweet

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

  Christopher Morley

  Children, Years, Childhood

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, Wildside Press LLC

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• It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

  Ross Perot

  Country, War, Years

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• Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

  Robin Roberts

  Beautiful, Years, League

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• Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Civilization, Years

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• We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Years, Forever

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• People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

  Jayson Blair

  Media, Years, People

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• I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Fog, Years

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• The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.

  Doug Collins

  Team, Heart, Opportunity

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• I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.

  Jim Gibbons

  Grateful, Years, People

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• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  Kate Atkinson

  Years, Literature, Four

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• Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

  Robert Atkins

  Sweet, School, Years

  "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Years, Able, Fool

  "Q & Andy: Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2015.

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