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• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Color, Years

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.

  William Lucking

  Years, Bridges, Names

  "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.

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• No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

  Roger Daltrey

  Baby, War, Fighting

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• It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

  Jami Gertz

  Depressing, Two, Years

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• I bowled for two years in college, because I was drunk and needed shoes.

  Kathleen Madigan

  College, Years, Shoes

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• I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Years, Class, Two

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• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Harry Shearer

  School, Years, Two

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Years, Two

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• How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, School, Years

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Two, Deals

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2012.

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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Two, People

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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Death, Letting Go

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.

  Greg Ginn

  Dream, Real, Years

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• I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Years, Two, Desperate

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

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• My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Years, Two

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

  Khandi Alexander

  Years, Two, Giving

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• For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

  John Amery

  Country, Fog, Years

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Military, Years, Two

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Japan, Doors, Hands

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• It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

  Mike Thompson

  Years, Two, People

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• You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

  Robert Greenwald

  Tunnels, Talking, Years

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

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• A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Years

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• I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

  Tabitha Soren

  Nbc, Years, Mtv

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