#six

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#become #day #devotes #hard #himself

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #america #astride #capitalist #china

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#actor #because #career #completely #different

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#away #bad #because #before #did

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.' ↗

— June Lockhart

#come #did #farmer #had #i

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak. ↗

— Julie London

#back #business #career #coming #crack

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business. ↗

— Julie London

#business #even #impossible #months #project

It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.' ↗

— Nia Long

#after #almost #auditioned #film #get

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #brigades #could #followed #full

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#characterized #heady #instantaneous #sixties #solutions