Eight Quotes - Page 8

• In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming.

  Stevie Nicks

  Running, Winning, Hands

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• My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

  Joni Mitchell

  Gold, Silver, My Family

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• I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

  Anthony Edwards

  New York, Kids, Years

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• I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

  Joseph Conrad

  Morning, Sitting Down, Hours

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

  Kate Simon

  Country, Three, Five

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• The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

  Jack Vance

  Intelligent, Years, Two

  Jack Vance (1964). “The Houses of Iszm”, p.52, Spatterlight Press

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• Guys are really easy to get along with. It's a lot better than being on the bus with eight girls. But the worst part is being the only girl, because there's some days where you just wanna watch a chick flick.

  Hillary Scott

  Girl, Guy, Watches

  "Lady Antebellum Talk Crushes, Clashes and Chemistry". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. May 23, 2008.

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• Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

  Conan O'Brien

  Crush, Jobs, College

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Two, Iraq

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Powerful, Cutting

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.

  Elijah Wood

  Years, People, Balance

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Track, Boards, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.

  Cody Johnson

  Texas, Nashville, Years

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