Eight Quotes - Page 20

• The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Crush, Boys, Fifty

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• I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Successful, People

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be times where you've got raw intelligence that comes in and in my experience, over eight years, the intelligence community is pretty good about saying, "Look, we can't say for certain what this means." But there are gonna be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assessments.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Agency, Assessment

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Player, Years

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• I left school December of 1988. I was 21 at the time. And I hadn't quite finished my degree because I had done eight semesters, not understanding that I was going to have to finish the degree without the TAPP and Pell grant money that I had been using towards paying for much of my college tuition. And I didn't have any money. So I said, "Alright." And circumstances there were such that I thought it was maybe time to move on anyway.

  Jon Gordon

  Moving, School, College

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• The product will remain basically unknown until seven percent of the population knows it. As soon as seven percent of the population knows about that product, on the next day, about ninety-eight percent of the population knows about it.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Next Day, Ninety Eight, Population

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.

  Jimmy Carter

  White, Justice, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Talking, People, Ironic

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We've had eight years of passivity with Barack Obama where whatever anybody around the world wanted to do to America, we just huffed and puffed and did nothing. And with Donald Trump, you want to do something to America, there's gonna be a price. And if you offend our sensibilities - we're not gonna put up with it. And he says and does what he does.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Years, Doe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Sleep, Night, Water

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• The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

  Alice Cooper

  Feet, Steps, Minutes

  Interview with CBC, 2006.

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• President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Senior, Average, Years

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Fire, Rocks, Tanks

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• I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time he’s surrounded by beds. And not only that, he’s surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and can’t help but think, Man, I’d love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I were him, I would be desperate for human company.

  Rachel Cohn

  Jobs, Lying, Mean

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• by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hero, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sleep, Four, Sides

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• Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

  Mari Mancusi

  Decision, Brain, Crowds

  Mari Mancusi (2007). “Girls That Growl”, p.24, Penguin

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• Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Years, Your Side

  Anne Rice (1976). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”

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• As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.

  John Green

  Smart, Marijuana, Cells

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.46, Penguin

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• It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And I am definitely not in love!

  Hilary McKay

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Sorry

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• So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write

  George Lopez

  Beach, Writing, Grandmother

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• I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Art, Unique, Years

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• I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Years, Unemployment, Boots

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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