Weeks Quotes
1412 quotes by 1225 authors
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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks…
— Heather Brooke
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In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we…
— Paul Pierce
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My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival.…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks…
— Martin Compston
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I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches…
— Ana Ivanovic
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on…
— Isabel Allende
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In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic…
— Stewart Udall
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An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to…
— Wole Soyinka
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him…
— Adam McKay
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A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
— Amanda Lindhout
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
— Samantha Shannon
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Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids,…
— Philip Baker Hall
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Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants…
— Eduardo Galeano
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The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.
— Lionel Barber
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At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything…
— Jim McKelvey
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I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was…
— Nelson Mandela
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I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to…
— Jim Himes
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Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops.…
— Joe Mansueto
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I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.
— Megan Fox
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
— Bill Gates
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