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• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  Hal Sparks

  Running, Growing Up, Kids

  "Hal Sparks, ‘Gay-Adjacent’ Star of Queer As Folk , Explains Why He Supports LGBT Equality" by Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Three, Littles

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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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• Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

  John Steinbeck

  Hair, Feet, Hoarse Voice

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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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, Sometimes

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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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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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Book, Men, Events

  "Holding the Hammer: JMS Talks Thor". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 17, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

  Adora Svitak

  Voice, Age, World

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• People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

  Alison Sweeney

  Love Yourself, Thinking, People

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• 37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

  Daniel Tammet

  Sadness, Dark, Numbers

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• My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Kids, Eight

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

  Serj Tankian

  Rocks, Track, Stuff

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

  Twyla Tharp

  Father, Piano, Lines

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Thar". Interview with Daviv Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Novelists

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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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• Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

  Edward Thorndike

  Education, Character, Mean

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• The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

  Gene Tierney

  Running, Hollywood, Structure

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, Long, Rolling

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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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• I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

  Richard Trumka

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, President

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Prayer, Two, Miracle

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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