Quotes with forty-seven

Quotes 41 till 60 of 122.

  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer 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.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bill Mumy I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Margaret Thatcher If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Beeban Kidron If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Beeban Kidron In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Regis McKenna Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
    Regis McKenna
    American marketing expert (1939 - )
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  • Andy Rooney Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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