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• A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

  Bill McKibben

  Running, Future, Long

  "An End to Sweet Illusions" by Bill McKibben, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2002.

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• We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

  Rue McClanahan

  Dog, Cat, Eight

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.

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• King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Kings, Cutting, Men

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• The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Starting Over, Noon, Way

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• Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

  Regis Philbin

  Inspirational, Basketball, New York

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• Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Team, Book, Home

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• In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Stupid, Party

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• Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

  Pete Rose

  Fun, Games, Dollars

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• No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Men, News

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”

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• I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Men, Emotional

  Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

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• I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Thinking, Important

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• The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Kind, Creation

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• I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

  Julie Delpy

  Eight, Years, Directors

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• I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

  Arthur Laffer

  Fall, Thinking, Years

  "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Years, Expectations

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• No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eight, Two, Twelve

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Long, Lines

  "Alternate Take: Levon Helm" by Tracy K. Smith, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2009.

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• My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

  Michael Ventura

  Life, Years, Giving

  Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns

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• I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Garden, Years

  'Imitation of Horace' (1714).

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• Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Pounds, Remember

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.37

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• The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Morning, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1823). “The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator”, p.177

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• When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

  Ice Cube

  Men, Clouds, White Man

  Interview (2003), as quoted in "Black History Month: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Couple, Writing, Next Week

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Writing, Lakes

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• A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

  Maurice Strong

  Life, Country, Energy

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