Eight Quotes - Page 8

• I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Eye, Thinking

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.

  John Derbyshire

  Years, Two, Evil

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• I’m very curious in regards to "The Hateful Eight" specifically about the blocking of the movie. Because in comedies, we don’t block. We basically like have to position the actors’ bodies in the way that is most conducive to filming both of them simultaneously.

  Seth Rogen

  Block, Actors, Body

  "Seth Rogen, Jennifer Jason Leigh on Challenges of ‘Steve Jobs,’ ‘The Hateful Eight’". Interview with Jennifer Jason Leigh, variety.com. December 29, 2015.

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• Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

  Lynne Tillman

  Reading, Writing, Other Worlds

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Self, Forever

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

  Diane Wilson

  Water, Captains, Boat

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

  Moby

  Christian, Atheist, Growing Up

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Weekend, Nba, Cities

  "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

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• You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don't show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Two, People, Guy

  "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

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• They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week to week people invite into their homes. It's a relationship that in success can go on six, seven, eight years. I think certainly in the early days, you definitely want that engagement.

  Alfred Gough

  Stars, War, Home

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

  Jackson Guthy

  Writing, Years, Two Year Olds

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Years, Regimes, Difficult

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Exercise, Ohio State, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really became a hardcore Batman fan when I was eight years old. What was clear to me, the reason I liked him better than Superman or Spider-Man or the Hulk or whoever, was the fact that he was human, and I could identify with him, and I really believed in that character strongly. In my heart of hearts, when I was eight years old, I believed that if I studied real hard, and worked out real hard, and if my dad bought me a cool car, I could be this guy.

  Michael Uslan

  Dad, Real, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Baby, Thinking, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

  Marty Nemko

  Coffee, Sleep, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

  Eric Drooker

  People, Chicago, Hours

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

  Rachel Holmes

  Goal, May, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.

  Rachel Holmes

  Paris, Demand, May

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.

  Arthur Bradford

  Summer, Men, Years

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Meaningful, Two, Differences

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Father, Years, Ideas

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

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• A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Responsible Government, Years, Doe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don't want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That's just not me, that's not how my creativity flows.

  Brooke Valentine

  Creativity, Want, Nine

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.

  Ariana Grande

  Challenges, Singing, Broadway

  "Interview: 2012 must-know - Ariana Grande". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 25,2012.

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