Five Quotes
4497 quotes by 3373 authors
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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.
— David Attenborough
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
— Chinua Achebe
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher.…
— Chinua Achebe
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My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
— Michele Bachmann
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and…
— Michele Bachmann
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or…
— Tom Baker
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
— Abu Bakr
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
— Alec Baldwin
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Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance…
— Steve Ballmer
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
— Franklin P. Adams
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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
— Charles Barkley
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…
— Henry Adams
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and…
— Roseanne Barr
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
— Bruce Barton
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you…
— Mario Batali
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We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!
— Martha Beck
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and…
— Kate Beckinsale
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd…
— Adele
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