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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
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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.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
Rolling Stone magazine, 1996 -
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
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I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980) -
I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
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I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
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I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
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I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have something cool happen to him, and it would take, like, five days to figure out how to tweet it.
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I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
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If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
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