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• I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

  Denis O'Hare

  Blood, Feet, Fans

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• I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Fun, Thinking, Years

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• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Failure, Character

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Three, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Typewriters

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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Tyrants, People

  "The War on Libya and US Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama, 2011". Interview with Rick Rozoff, www.globalresearch.ca. March 28, 2011.

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• When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Writing, Years

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• An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

  Apolo Ohno

  Years, Preparation, Three

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Small Hands, Broken

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• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  Yoko Ono

  Mother, School, Years

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Winter, Ohio

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

  Joel Osteen

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Years, Games

  "Owen relies on honest approach to mean streets" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.

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• You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

  Mehmet Oz

  Coffee, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "16 Quick Questions for Dr. Oz" by Mehmet Oz and Joel Harper, www.esquire.com. October 4, 2007.

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• I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Animal, Bird, Cheese

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• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  Paracelsus

  Philosophy, Medicine, Pillars

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  Talcott Parsons

  Missing, Three, Variables

  TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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• I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

  Dolly Parton

  Fire, Complaining, Firsts

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010

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• I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Friendship, Gossip, World

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• I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Joy, Seven Days

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• Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Work, Believe

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• I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Love Life, Sacrifice

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• We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

  Rick Perry

  Years, President, Administration

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• I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.

  Tyler Perry

  Hard Work, Years, Giving

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• It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

  Tyler Perry

  Hollywood, Three, Week

  "Tyler Perry, Movie Mogul". Interview with Sheryl Garratt, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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