Two Weeks Quotes - Page 3

• The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

  Conan O'Brien

  College, Government, Skills

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• If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

  Ray Davies

  Writing, Eight, Two

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• It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

  Chris Frantz

  Insomnia, Two, Firsts

  "Coming at rock from odd angles" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.

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• ~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

  Julia Roberts

  Mother, Parenting, Thinking

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• Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into - and out of - the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Cutting, Two

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

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• Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

  Sam Ewing

  Holiday, Vacation, Rocks

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• A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

  James F. Amos

  Military, Marine, Islands

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• On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Squares, August, Two

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 13, 2012

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• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  Venus Williams

  Two, Tennis, Three

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• My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

  Johnny Vegas

  Home, Holiday, Vacation

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• In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Writing, Two

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

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• My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

  Layne Staley

  Girlfriend, Tired, Two

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• Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Doors, Two

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• On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

  Curt Schilling

  Two, Underwear, Laptops

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 26, 2006.

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• When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

  Adam Sandler

  Two, Gigs, Sometimes

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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  J. K. Rowling

  Two, Week, Journal

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• I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

  Anne Perry

  Two, Pages, Week

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

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• I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Two, Pie, Trying

  "Gwyneth Paltrow's Secrets to Healthy Eating and Her Rockin' Body". www.self.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  Apolo Ohno

  Winter, Ice, Two

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• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Two, Feelings, Joints

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• I always wanted to represent the natural, healthy girl, and I didn't care if it was cool or trendy to look like you hadn't eaten in two weeks.

  Marisa Miller

  Girl, Two, Healthy

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• Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Volleyball, Eye

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• My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

  Bob Monkhouse

  Love, Funny, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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