Nine Quotes - Page 15

• All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

  Chris Martin

  Children, Artist, America

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

  Leslie Mann

  Children, My Favorite, Thousand

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• I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

  Assata Shakur

  Moving, Standards, Rhythm

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• I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Pessimistic, Way

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Tolerance, Wonder

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

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• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Editors, Eight

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, Ninety Nine

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• The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

  Brian Eno

  Simple, Piano, White

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  K'naan

  Cousin, School, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.

  Jessie J

  Tired, Sleep, Complaining

  "The Very Colorful Jessie J". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Stupid, Eight, Europe

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

  Darius McCrary

  Years, Giving, Roles

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.

  Colin Farrell

  Tired, Thinking, Years

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

  Ted Turner

  August, Care, Earning

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• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Sexy, Good Sex

  Sexus ch. 21 (1949)

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• In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches

  David Coleman

  Soccer, Winning, Firsts

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• I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

  Jim Davis

  Able, Stuff, Novelty

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• It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

  John Bright

  School, Years, Firsts

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• I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Crazy, Years, Car

  "Q&A: Seinfeld finds new 'space and place' with Web series". Interview with Ryan Nakashima, www.times-standard.com. October 7, 2015.

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• When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

  Ansel Elgort

  Ballet

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

  Alan Cohen

  Spiritual, Night, Thinking

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• So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

  Eric Idle

  Fashion, Years, Mind

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.

  Debra Messing

  Stars, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

  Yogi Berra

  Brother, Couple, Kids

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