Quotes with five-year

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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    Source:  (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bess Myerson Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Hervey Allen Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Woody Allen Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William John Bennett Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cosby Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Brad Feld Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Billy Boyd Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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