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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
‐‐ Arthur Smith -
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
‐‐ Ernie Pyle -
About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman -
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
‐‐ Frank Yerby -
About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.
‐‐ Sherman Austin -
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh -
About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.
‐‐ Max Lucado -
About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.
‐‐ Denise Van Outen -
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.
‐‐ Deborah Mailman -
About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin -
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik -
About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg -
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
‐‐ Reed Hastings -
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
‐‐ Eric Topol -
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
‐‐ Gabe Newell -
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.
‐‐ Ken Watanabe -
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
‐‐ Joan of Arc -
About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.
‐‐ Miranda Hart -
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway -
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
‐‐ Patrick O'Brian -
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
‐‐ Gene Tierney -
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.
‐‐ Keith Richards -
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.
‐‐ Tim DeKay -
About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.
‐‐ Anson Mount -
About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
‐‐ Carla Gallo -
About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
‐‐ Art Alexakis -
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
‐‐ Sidney Altman -
About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
‐‐ Donna Lynne Champlin -
About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes.
‐‐ Maury Povich -
About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.
‐‐ Frank Iero -
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
‐‐ Marie Windsor -
About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.
‐‐ Diana Nyad -
About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
‐‐ Ted Levine -
About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels -
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho -
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
‐‐ Josh Billings -
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
‐‐ Josh Billings -
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
‐‐ Terry Kath -
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda -
About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
‐‐ David Rakoff -
About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.
‐‐ Dweezil Zappa -
About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.
‐‐ Nick Nolte -
About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be either biologists or music fans. Neither one has much reason to antagonize our armed forces.
‐‐ Seth Shostak -
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
‐‐ Tom Wilson -
About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
‐‐ Leslie Charteris -
About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
‐‐ Jane Pauley -
About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
‐‐ Mark Bradford -
About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen
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