Quotes with five-point

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  • Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Most reporters I've spoken with want very badly to understand what is happening to her, but the why is really very unimportant. That is just not the point of the show. The journey is how she will deal with this situation, and how it will change her life.
    Source: About her character on Wonderfalls, in Wonderfalls Spills Torrent of Wit by John Crooks at Zap2it.com (2004)
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
    Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • James Thurber My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Lee Iacocca My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Ellen DeGeneres My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Jean Rostand My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Armstrong Williams My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bryan Callen My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bob Hawke My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
    Bob Hawke
     
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  • Bruce Dickinson My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Lord George Byron My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Paul Klee Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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