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• I'm 37, I'm pretty fit and feel I have another eight years left - which means there's 32 Majors still to go at.

  Lee Westwood

  Mean, Years, Fit

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• I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.

  Nate Ruess

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

  Paula McLain

  Mother, Rain, Years

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Years, People, Giving

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• I met eight great members. I really don't think that anyone else could get along like how our nine girls get along so well. Because we're girls, there can be a lot of jealousy going on. Thinking back on it now, I think I'm a kid who received a lot of good fortune.

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Girl, Kids, Thinking

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• A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Lines

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• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  Fergie

  Years, Missing, Different

  "Fergie teases 'notebooks full of ideas' for new music" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 14, 2012.

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• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Interesting, House

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

  Robin Williams

  War, Women, President

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• Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

  Yogi Berra

  Food, Cutting, Thinking

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• The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

  Simone Weil

  Morning, War, Order

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• No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Two, Twelve, Six

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

  Ludwig von Mises

  Morning, Age, Feels

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• I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Thinking, Civilization

  "Huston Smith: Rock star of religions turns 90" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

  Huston Smith

  Years, Profound, Gone

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Religious scholar Huston Smith talks about Christianity and why religion matters today" by David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. September 19, 2005.

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• It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

  Kevin Keegan

  Team, Two, Division

  "Vernon's cool finish puts freeze on City" by Ian Whittell, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2005.

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• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

  Billy Carter

  Mother, Peace Corps, Sixty

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• Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

  Julian Fellowes

  Cameras, Actors, Ninety

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

  Gene Hackman

  Morning, Writing, Wife

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• How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

  Mel Torme

  Memories, Years, Fifteen

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Here I Am, Nine

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• I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Talking, Years

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Meaningful, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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