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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

Hell, She, Started

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

Reputation, Takes, Build

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Dog, Call, Legs

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

Country, Learn, Here

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Someone, Understand, Child

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom, Fool, Limit

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Kindness, Perfect, Soul

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Sex, Soul, Said

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Brave, Longer

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

Tell, Forever, Begins

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan

May, Else, Anyone

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin

Die, Until, Seventy

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock

Control, Gun, Innocent

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams, Time, Live

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney

End, Remember, Lives

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Started, Wanting, Actress

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya

Time, Best, Children

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

Times, Half, Crime

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

Bad, Luck, Mirror

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Together, Play

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

Good, Money, Learning

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw

Pain, Before, Existence

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Job, Find, Days

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

Money, Next, Close

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Learning, Why, Earth

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West

Work, Two, Four

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby

Hope, Yourself, Children

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs

Life, History, Down

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

Family, Teacher, Smart

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp

Beauty, Fear, Poetry

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