Week Quotes - Page 19

• In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

  Jared Harris

  People, Meals, World

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Brother, Eight, Years

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• Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Couple, Cutting, Past

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• I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

  John Hurt

  Drama, School, Might

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue on the Red Planet. The other theory is that the satellite dish on the rover accidentally picked up CNN's election coverage.

  Argus Hamilton

  Past, Blue, Cnn

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• Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

  Amy Poehler

  House, Pancakes, Firsts

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• So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

  John McCain

  Space, Iran, Firsts

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• My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

  Marissa Mayer

  Long, Maternity, Maternity Leave

  "So Marissa Mayer will be skipping maternity leave - how very American" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2012.

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• We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Blessing, Names, People

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• It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

  Jules Renard

  Hero, Men, Honorable Man

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• What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

  Marion Woodman

  Analysis, Moments, Hours

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• The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Block, Sunday, Years

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• ...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

  Stephen King

  Friday, Teaching, Writing

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• A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

  Keith Devlin

  Writing, Years, Three

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• 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

  Ed Robertson

  Guy, Dollars, Used

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• Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Party, Class

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• New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Hate, Gay

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• What a welcome change to feel like someone is running the country instead of running it into the ground. President Obama has done more in eight weeks than George W. Bush did in eight years - unless you include starting a couple of wars.

  Jack Cafferty

  Running, Country, Couple

  "Commentary: Obama a leader who actually leads". edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2009.

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• I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

  Martin Fowler

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts (2012). “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”, p.59, Addison-Wesley

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• You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Half, Mccain

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• The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.

  Warren E. Burger

  Prayer, Men, Views

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• Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

  Henry Iba

  Player, Teach, Conferences

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• After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.

  Walter E. Williams

  Waiting, Three, Four

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• I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Numbers, Letters, Threatening

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• How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!

  Mark Steyn

  Government, United States, Dollars

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