Weeks Quotes
1412 quotes by 1225 authors
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Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
— Richard Dawkins
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I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two…
— Mary Badham
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives,…
— Hannah Kent
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Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70…
— Sarah Parcak
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If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body…
— Michael Specter
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In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed…
— Noam Chomsky
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Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating…
— Paul Hawken
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My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and…
— Anne Wojcicki
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Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple…
— Summer Sanders
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We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make…
— Summer Sanders
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I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a…
— Jason Wiles
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My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein…
— Sami Gayle
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I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date,…
— Jane Levy
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At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.
— Jenny Mollen
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I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.
— Eric Christian Olsen
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I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and…
— Ben Bass
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In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing…
— Peter Baynham
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I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month…
— Kelli O'Hara
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When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do.…
— D. B. Sweeney
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