Four Years Quotes - Page 3

• I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Years, People

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

  Ewan McGregor

  Fall, Years, Four

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• The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

  Mitch McConnell

  Years, Usa, Debt

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• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Phones

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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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• I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

  Kristen Stewart

  College, Thinking, Years

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• After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Years, Political, Four

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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• It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

  Gertrude Stein

  Night, Sister In Law, Years

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.8, Random House

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• My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

  Hope Solo

  Years, World, Four

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• Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

  Patti Smith

  House Of Cards, Years, Three

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Funny, Jobs, Farewell

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Marine, Years

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• Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

  Murray Walker

  Years, Four, Hills

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• The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

  Gary Lineker

  Years, World, Four

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• I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

  John Mayer

  School, Blessing, Years

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• Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

  Groucho Marx

  Running, Children, Years

  Duck Soup (motion picture) (1933). Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

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• I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Years

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• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Four, Comedy

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

  Yann Martel

  Years, Four, Canada

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• Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Years, Play, Three

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• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  Bela Lugosi

  Art, Years, Degrees

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• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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• If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

  Stacy London

  Years, Clothes, Personality

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• About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

  Arthur Smith

  Years, Looks, Four

  "Carry on gurning" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2002.

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