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• Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory.

  Sun Tzu

  Moving, Heaven, Victory

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• Working nine to five, what way to earn a living.
  Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving.
  They use just your mind and they never give you credit.
  It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!

  Dolly Parton

  Crazy, Giving, Mind

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• If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Ocean, Feet, Ideas

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Growing Up, Numbers, Ninety Nine

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• At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

  Lou Holtz

  Average, Balance, Twenties

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

  James A. Michener

  Creative, Groups, Would Be

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• Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Destiny, Ninety Nine, Reminders

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.26, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club.

  Jack Wilshere

  Mean, Clubs, Arsenal

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• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  Wavy Gravy

  Summer, Fun, Kids

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• If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

  Ian Blair

  Mean, Police, Want

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• The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Average, Years, Hollywood

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

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• I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

  Clark Gregg

  New York, Writing, College

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• Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Clouds, Laughing

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• As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

  John Caudwell

  Years, Obvious

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• My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

  Questlove

  Art, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.

  Miesha Tate

  Fighting, Thinking, Years

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

  Axl Rose

  Hip Hop, Nails, Hips

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• If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old

  Bradley Wiggins

  Years, Heritage, Firsts

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

  Sophy Burnham

  Uncles, Children, Book

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• Nine games? It's too long.

  Derek Jeter

  Games, Long

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• It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, People, Devil

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison”

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• For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

  Adam Gopnik

  Coffee, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  Elana Meyers

  Basketball, Summer, Softball

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• (After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.

  Jay Haizlip

  Morning, Home, Son

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Struggle, Two, Detectives

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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