Five Quotes

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Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld
Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and… — Jodie Foster
In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth… — Sam Zell
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't… — Dorothy Parker
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. — Henny Youngman
There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally… — Lawrence Taylor
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in… — Alexander Alekhine
There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing… — Amy Poehler
There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann… — Matthew Engel
Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone. — Phil Thompson
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse. — Lynn Swann
I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up… — Harry Redknapp
I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't.… — Bernie Ecclestone
Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead. — Pepe Reina
There was a seminar for advanced students in ZÃ¼rich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain… — George Polya
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,… — Rohinton Mistry

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