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• One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Pay, Corporations, Taxes

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

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• I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Driving, Said

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• Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

  Gus Van Sant

  Brother, Character, Kids

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• My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mother, Hard Work, Math

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• I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Home, Espresso

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• I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Stars, Father, Expression

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

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• Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Eye, Two, People

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• When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

  Vin Scully

  Years, Pieces, Legs

  "Dodgers’ Vin Scully ‘One on One’ From the Booth". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2009.

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• The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Laughter, Fun, Strangers And Friends

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• I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

  Amanda Seyfried

  School, Different, Prom

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• I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pay, Mark, Tribute

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• Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hair, Tails, Rats

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• The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

  Alan Shepard

  Feet, Firsts, Planes

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• I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming - and I do it four times a week.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Week, Stairs, Treadmills

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• If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Years

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• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  Nate Silver

  Years, Broken, Presidential

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• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

  Shel Silverstein

  Reading, Journey, Years

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• Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Done, Concerts

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Reviews

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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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, Like You

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

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• I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Parent, Three

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

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• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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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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• When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Book, Years

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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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, Olympics

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