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• I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

  Kobe Bryant

  Dog

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• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Character, Thinking, Space

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• A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

  Alveda King

  Selfish, Home, Way

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

  Charles Babbage

  Half, Wheels, Twenties

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.38

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

  Tom Baker

  Who I Am, People, Twelve

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• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  Victoria Beckham

  Girl, People, Spices

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Broken, Tea, Add

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• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Food

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2018

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• I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

  Sarah Brightman

  Thinking, Three, Ifs

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• Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

  Albert Brooks

  Dog, Lazy, Acting

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• For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Months, Patient

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• When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

  Chris Brown

  Christmas, Four Wheelers, Trampolines

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

  Dave Brubeck

  Dad, School, Years

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• I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

  Sophia Bush

  Men, Hbo, House

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• Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Unique, Trying, Different

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• I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

  Smedley Butler

  Country, Military, Marine

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  A. S. Byatt

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

  Robert Byrd

  Family, Wall, Things In Life

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