Ten Quotes - Page 10

• I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

  Debra Messing

  Thinking, Years, Hollywood

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Being Yourself, Nine, Worship

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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• The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

  John Wesley Powell

  Rocks, Rivers, Landscape

  Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875). “Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution”, p.55

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• Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.

  Rocco Landesman

  Things In Life, Giving, Important

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• Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Reality, Years, Names

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• Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Made

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• God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

  Charles L. Allen

  Law, Want, Want U

  Charles L. Allen, Robert V. Ozment (1953). “God's Psychiatry, ...But God Can”

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• If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

  Judith Stone

  Use, Metrics, Toes

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.

  Petra Kelly

  Creativity, Rising Up, Vitality

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.103, South End Press

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• Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, School, Years

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• If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.

  Yoko Ono

  Girl, Thinking, Bed

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• Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  People, Would Be, Pounds

  Betty Jane Wylie (1986). “Successfully single: how to live alone and like it”

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• What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

  Fay Weldon

  Worry, Stop Worrying, Minutes

  Fay Weldon (2011). “What Makes Women Happy”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.

  Scott Meyers

  Writing, Years, Iron

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• A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Hero, Leader, World

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Perspectives of world history”

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• The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Ninety Nine, Employers, Interest

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• Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

  Donald Hall

  Moving, Home, Years

  Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988”

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• Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

  Lionel Johnson

  Years, Library, Needs

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• If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

  e. e. cummings

  Fighting, Years, Feelings

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• I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.

  Mary Robison

  Sarcastic, Brother, People

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• Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

  James Altucher

  Coffee, Men, Dollars

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• Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Play, Able

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• One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Years, Moments, Year One

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• Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wall, Years, Land

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• I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

  Joan Crawford

  Hands, House, Steps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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