Nine Quotes - Page 17

• There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

  Calvin Trillin

  Eight, Years, Meals

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

  Danny Kaye

  Love You, Heart, Differences

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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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• Our team goal is pretty simple ... basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.

  Curtis Granderson

  Team, Simple, Play

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• It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Writing, Two

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• At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eight, Light, Rooms

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• When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Children, Effort, Tasks

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• Going to set, every day, and working with the incredible actors I get to work with is fulfilling. I've been doing this since I was nine years old, so it's always been something that I've been passionate about. It's always fed me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Years, Passionate, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

  Eliza Coupe

  Dad, Team, School

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

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• Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Battle

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• Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

  George S. Clason

  Desire, Coins, Pay

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Firsts, Wells

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• No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

  Jack Benny

  Believe, People, Matter

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Taught Us, Self

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• I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

  Jack Nicholson

  Book, Phones, Millions

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• The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mother, Fire, Way

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• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Animal, Simple

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun.

  Katie Price

  Fun, Journey, Games

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• All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.

  Joan Collins

  Home, Men, Ninety Nine

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• It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

  George Carlin

  Abortion, Waiting, Months

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

  Robert Knepper

  Character, Ideas, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show with nine expensive actors in it. It was very nice that they were even interested in doing that. But, I was so proud of what we'd done that I couldn't think of a compelling reason to do a lesser version of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

  Arianna Huffington

  Ninety Nine, Culture, Where You Are

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• Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

  Andrew Pyper

  Loneliness, Fighting, Names

  Andrew Pyper (2014). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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