Eight Quotes - Page 31

• It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

  Helen Mirren

  Years, Twenties, Hardest

  Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Years, Scientist, Charlatans

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 16, 1963.

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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Jail, Average

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• Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Views, Years, President

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

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• He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

  Julia Quinn

  Pigs, Rabbits, Upside Down

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• Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

  Derrick Jensen

  Fighting, Two, People

  Derrick Jensen (2010). “Lives Less Valuable: A Novel”, p.200, PM Press

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• To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

  James Turrell

  Light, Taste, Sun

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• Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Zero, Numbers, Size

  "'Since when was a ten plus-size?' Ellen DeGeneres hits back at Abercrombie & Fitch's 'thin and beautiful' customer policy", www.dailymail.co.uk. May 17, 2013.

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Stars, Memories, Years

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• When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

  Philip Emeagwali

  College, Years, Age

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• Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Age, Library

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• I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

  Idina Menzel

  Heart, Love Is, Week

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• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Usual, Movement, Half

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Moving, Kids

  Michelle Obama's Remarks During White House Convening on Food Marketing to Children, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 18, 2013.

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• There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

  Ed McMahon

  Night, People, Tuesday

  " Milton Berle diagnosed with cancerous tumor", www.cnn.com. April 25, 2001.

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• We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

  Charlie Watts

  Night, Play, Goes On

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• In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Night, Pages, Seven

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

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• I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

  Stan Getz

  Years, Two, Firsts

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• Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights

  Adam Sandler

  Crazy, Night, Light

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• Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fall

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015

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• When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Mistake, Fall

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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

  Henry Cavill

  Blue, Training, Faces

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

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• For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

  Corey Haim

  Years, Bed, Half

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