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• On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

  Tom Wolfe

  Wall, Business, Three

  The Bonfire of the Vanities ch. 1 (1987). Ellipsis in the original.Wolfe took the phrase "Masters of the Universe" from a name used in the early 1980s for action figures by the Mattel toy company and in a related television cartoon show.

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

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

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• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  Mae West

  Two, Working It, Know How

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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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• You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

  Joss Whedon

  Morning, Night, My Favorite

  "Joss Whedon Talks THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, THE AVENGERS, His Writing Process, Comic-Con, Collecting and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

  James Whistler

  Two, Three, Cry

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

  Betty White

  Lying, Eye, Sleep

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

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• Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

  Betty White

  Long Ago, Years, Half

  "Betty White Still A Hit, With Ever-Younger Fans". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 8, 2011.

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• In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  Venus Williams

  Exercise, Air, Years

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• If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

  Bruce Willis

  Giving, Hussein, Give Me

  "Actor Willis' $1m Saddam Bounty". news.bbc.co.uk. September 26, 2003.

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• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  Brian Wilson

  Done, Hell, Minutes

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• I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

  Brian Wilson

  Voice, Bob, Freshman

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• I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

  Carnie Wilson

  Half, Weight, Nine

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• I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

  Flip Wilson

  Years, Umpires, Numbers

  "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.

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• Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Giving, Drug

  "Winehouse: Drink, Drugs And Me", www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2007.

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• Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

  James Wolcott

  Believe, Reading, Writing

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• To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

  Tiger Woods

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Book, Writing, Building

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, Gambling, People

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• Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.

  Steven Wright

  People, Laughing, Stills

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• I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

  will.i.am

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Neil Young

  Country, Rights, Years

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• I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Money, Motivation

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