Eleven Quotes

• You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Use

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.83, Main Street Books

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• How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Time, Eye, Animal

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 18, 2016

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• When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Who I Am

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  The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Teamwork, Play

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• I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

  Dick Gregory

  Years, White, Restaurants

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• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  Jack Irons

  Cameron, Finished, Session

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• I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

  Whitney Houston

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "10 Things You Didn't Know About Whitney Houston" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Temples, Body, Remember

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• Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

  Shannen Doherty

  Frustrated, Granted, Right Now

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• Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

  Joan Didion

  Reading, Simple, Twelve

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.

  Matt Damon

  Ocean, Thinking, Vegas

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• It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction. I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Baby, Office, Nine

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• I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

  Erik Satie

  Quarters, Bits

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• The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

  John George Nicolay

  Husband, Children, Loss

  John George Nicolay (1922). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...”, p.104, Library of Alexandria

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• Possession is eleven points in the law.

  Colley Cibber

  Law, Possession

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.121

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• If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.

  John Money

  Boys, Men, Twenties

  Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia interview, Vol. II, nr 3 (p. 5), 1991.

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• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  Jack Irons

  Fall, Jam, Pearls

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• Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

  Keren Ann

  Israel, France, Grew Up

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• God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.

  Rich Mullins

  Dream, Brother, Jealous

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• The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Real, Team, People

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