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When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

When one teaches, two learn.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.

Picture you upon my knee, just tea two and two for tea.

In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.