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I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
Tags: Daily, Used ✍ Author: Aravind AdigaBut, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
Tags: King, Old ✍ Author: Andre AgassiI grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
Tags: Father, Minnesota ✍ Author: Peter AgreHow many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Tags: Call, Dog ✍ Author: Abraham LincolnGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Tags: Give, Spend ✍ Author: Abraham LincolnOf the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Tags: Lifetime, Strong ✍ Author: Ronald ReaganNot only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!
Tags: Five, Sometimes ✍ Author: Stephen BakerThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Tags: Homicide, Kinds ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Tags: Newspapers, Thousand ✍ Author: Napoleon BonaparteWe usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
Tags: Five, Morning ✍ Author: Cab CallowayOne in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Tags: Illness, Point ✍ Author: Alastair CampbellThere are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Tags: Contact, Ways ✍ Author: Dale CarnegieWeight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
Tags: End, Together ✍ Author: DMXI've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.
Tags: Latest, Played ✍ Author: Thayer DavidNo, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.
Tags: Maybe, Year ✍ Author: George EadsLater, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Tags: Later, Off ✍ Author: Dennis EckersleyFor me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.
Tags: Pick, Players ✍ Author: Stefan EdbergVisit partners pages
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Tags: Become, Eyes ✍ Author: Leon EdelWe were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
Tags: Half, Married ✍ Author: Nick FaldoIn a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Tags: Few, King ✍ Author: King FaroukWhen I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
Tags: Beautiful, Song ✍ Author: FeistI have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
Tags: Funny, Time ✍ Author: Will FerrellWe owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Tags: Existence, Thanks ✍ Author: Ayumi HamasakiEvery four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
Tags: Pregnant, Worth ✍ Author: Natasha HamiltonI'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
Tags: Good, Wheels ✍ Author: Mitch HedbergI was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
Tags: After, Five ✍ Author: Lee IacoccaIf you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
Tags: College, Education ✍ Author: Bo JacksonYou can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
Tags: Eat, Three ✍ Author: Randy JacksonI never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.
Tags: Love, Music ✍ Author: Louise JamesonThe Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
Tags: Night, Vision ✍ Author: Joseph JarmanTwitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
Tags: Safe, Short ✍ Author: Mindy KalingThe official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.
Tags: Days, Group ✍ Author: Ryszard KapuscinskiWe're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
Tags: Guys, Tool ✍ Author: Maynard James KeenanI've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Tags: Days, Written ✍ Author: Anne LamottI advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Tags: Feet, Hands ✍ Author: Ann LandersGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Tags: Children, Give ✍ Author: Vladimir LeninI have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.
Tags: Ten, York ✍ Author: Connie MackConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Tags: Simple, Words ✍ Author: Andre MauroisI probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
Tags: Life, Times ✍ Author: NellyI don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
Tags: Remember, Writer ✍ Author: Randy NewmanI had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.
Tags: Hated, Months ✍ Author: Stevie NicksMy Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
Tags: Colors, Types ✍ Author: Heather O\'RourkeI find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.
Tags: Acting, Gone ✍ Author: Elizabeth OlsenMedicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Tags: Ethics, Philosophy ✍ Author: ParacelsusFour things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Tags: Success, Work ✍ Author: Norman Vincent PealeIt took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Tags: Child, Took ✍ Author: Pablo PicassoI did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
Tags: Show, Times ✍ Author: Elvis PresleyI've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
Tags: Average, Real ✍ Author: QuestloveEven by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
Tags: Five, Time ✍ Author: Robert QuineWell, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.
Tags: Here, Time ✍ Author: Robert RauschenbergI run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.
Tags: Days, Run ✍ Author: Alberto SalazarI never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.
Tags: Big, Spring ✍ Author: Ryne SandbergFour hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
Tags: Feet, Hair ✍ Author: John SteinbeckMy memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
Tags: Memories, Old ✍ Author: George TakeiSo, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
Tags: Among, Common ✍ Author: Al-Waleed bin TalalFour years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
Tags: Enough, Learn ✍ Author: John UpdikeAt the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Tags: Age, Grow ✍ Author: Peter UstinovI have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Tags: Bad, Children ✍ Author: Peter UstinovI'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
Tags: Smoke, Started ✍ Author: Ville ValoToo many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
Tags: Lose, Turn ✍ Author: Gary VaynerchukI need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars.
Tags: Cars, Sisters ✍ Author: Alexa VegaEven in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.
Tags: Five, Time ✍ Author: Murray WalkerLet the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
Tags: Answer, Three ✍ Author: Mike WallaceFour hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.
Tags: Hundred, Thought ✍ Author: Shane WarneOne and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Tags: Five, Work ✍ Author: Mae WestFiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Tags: Life, Often ✍ Author: Virginia WoolfWell, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Tags: Books, Write ✍ Author: Frank Lloyd WrightI have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
Tags: Children, Grown ✍ Author: Carl YastrzemskiI'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
Tags: Here, Parents ✍ Author: Steven YeunI've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
Tags: Die, Money ✍ Author: Henny YoungmanI look at it logically. We need four wins. We're one step closer.
Tags: Closer, Step ✍ Author: Brady AndersonI did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
Tags: Five, Seasons ✍ Author: Pamela AndersonNever buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
Tags: Buy, Paintings ✍ Author: Walter AnnenbergFor every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.
Tags: Finished, Issue ✍ Author: Sergio AragonesWhen I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
Tags: Three, Wanted ✍ Author: Jeffrey ArcherA doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.
Tags: Goal, Training ✍ Author: Sean AstinI spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
Tags: American, Literature ✍ Author: John AtkinsonThere are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
Tags: Alive, Problems ✍ Author: David AttenboroughSome of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.
Tags: Five, Took ✍ Author: Hayley AtwellOne day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
Tags: Beautiful, Changed ✍ Author: John James AudubonI play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
Tags: Guys, Love ✍ Author: Travis BarkerFor four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Tags: Anyone, System ✍ Author: Charles F. BassLike any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
Tags: Good, Research ✍ Author: Charles Foster BassWhen I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
Tags: Stage, Thought ✍ Author: Victoria BeckhamI'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
Tags: Five, Started ✍ Author: Daisy BerkowitzWhen he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
Tags: Experience, King ✍ Author: Kathryn BigelowI can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
Tags: Last, Three ✍ Author: Jacqueline Bisset