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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Lou Holtz Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    Source: The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • John Lennon Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Baba Kalyani Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Robert Cecil Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Betty Buckley For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Burt Rutan For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bette Davis From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Ben Folds Good morning, son
    In twenty years from now
    Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
    And I can tell you 'bout today
    And how I picked you up and everything changed.
    Source: Lyrics Still Fighting It, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Betty Shabazz Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • William Shakespeare He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    Source: The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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