Eighty Quotes

• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Confusion, Age, Body

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, April, Cold

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Average, People, Body

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• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Birthday, Men, Twenties

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• Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  Lou Holtz

  Frustration, People, Confusion

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  Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Quoted in Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Among Friends (1982).

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• Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, America

  "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Twenties, Percent, Items

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• I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Fun, Years, Different

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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Depressing, Years, America

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

  Phil McGraw

  Thinking, People, Choices

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

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• Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.

  Marisa Miller

  Believe, Personality, Fake

  "Marisa Miller: The Secret to Living a Sexier Life". Interview with Caroline Schaefer, www.womenshealthmag.com. December 15, 2011.

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• At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

  Paul Merton

  Heart, Night, Sitting

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• In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Exercise, Seventies

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• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

  Lord Byron

  School, Men, Two

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• Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

  David Bowie

  Important, Pixies, Youth

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". www.bowiewonderworld.com. June 16, 2002.

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• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Agriculture, India

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• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

  Bernard Baruch

  Character, Technology, Thinking

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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