Nine Months Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Writing, Years, Two

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• Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

  Harry S. Truman

  Single Mom, Men, President

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Years of trial and hope”

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• I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.

  Ray Allen

  Basketball, Kids, Eight

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