Months Quotes - Page 38

• Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

  Harrison Salisbury

  Children, Winter, Cities

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Air, Triumph, Arms

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• I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

  Mira Sorvino

  Home, Eight, Intellectual

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• One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

  Derek Jarman

  Flower, Past, Civilization

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• There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

  Christian Bale

  Numbers, Wanted, Has Beens

  "Dark Star", www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2005.

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• Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

  Graham Swift

  Years, Novel, Knows

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• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

  Kevin Costner

  Home, Kids, Two

  "Keeper of the flame" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.

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• If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Character, Numbers

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• We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Brother, Nice, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

  Alberto Salazar

  Years, Two, Long

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.

  Bar Refaeli

  Cute, Fashion, Kids

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• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  M. Ward

  Song, Giving, Perspective

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• I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, Two, Imagine

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• There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

  Max Greenfield

  Talking, Failed Relationship, Ends

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

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• With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

  Marco Arment

  Two, Magazines, Publishing

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• I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

  Soulja Boy

  Artist, Two, Firsts

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• How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

  Birch Bayh

  Baby, Important, Nine

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• I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

  Candace Bushnell

  Space, Age, Chicago

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• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  Hannibal Buress

  Jobs, Real, Half

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

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• In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Community, Chicago

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• I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

  James L. Barksdale

  Educational, Past, Government

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• Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

  Leslie Bibb

  Thinking, Blue, Practice

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

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• I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.

  Eric Church

  Country, Stars, Dad

  "Eric Church sings 'naked'". Interview with Whitney Pastorek, ew.com. May 10, 2007.

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• When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Eight, Waiting, Mind

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• On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

  Billy Campbell

  Mean, Land, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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