Eighty Quotes - Page 13

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Chris LeDoux

Skills, Luck, Twenties

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
And wonder Providence is not more sage.
Adversity is the first path to truth:
He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Lord Byron

Truth, War, Adversity

Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

John Gould

Book, Sky, Two

John Gould (1873). “An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain”, p.4

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The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

Steven Seagal

Home, Dark, Night

"Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

Tone Bell

Hate, Believe, Writing

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

Betty White

Years, Age, Growing

Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

Sojourner Truth

Rights, Years, Ice

Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.

Dervla Murphy

Years, Cities, People

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[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

Jessica Hagedorn

Blood, Church, Loyal

Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

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So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?

Sue Margolis

Marriage, Mother, Thinking

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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

Gertrude Atherton

Nursing, Occupation, Chance

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Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Helen Van Slyke

Lying, People, Age

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Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life, Men, Years

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Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

Mary Schapiro

Writing, Law, Done

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At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in radical left politics and beneath it history students. In search of a political view for the future we came across National Bolshevism which is closely connected with the SA hierarchy. People like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm who were later known as 'second revolutionaries' attracted our attention.

Douglas Pearce

Views, People, Political

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In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

Katharine Whitehorn

Mother, Fate, Plot

Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Mark Twain

Children, Book, Years

Mark Twain (2015). “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.7, Booklassic

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At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real, Men, Years

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Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.

Anne Taylor Fleming

Mother, Baby, Memories

Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Japan, Cds, Two

Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 2005.

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When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

Dennis Hopper

Looks, Sixty

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The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.

Nicola Horlick

Cash, Eras, Rich

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I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me

Iggy Pop

Illegal Things, Car, Riding

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Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Class, Down And, Rich

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For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

Pablo Casals

Past, Thinking, Years

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