Nine Quotes - Page 35

• The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

  Lisa Loeb

  Play, Two, Musician

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• The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

  Brian May

  Player, Albums, Orchestra

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• We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

  Paul Ince

  Eight, Two Sides, Giving

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• We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

  Conor Oberst

  Numbers, Soul, Deny

  "Song: At The Bottom Of Everything (Album: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning)". 2005.

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• These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

  Frederick Douglass

  Taken, School, Race

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.82

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• She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

  J. D. Salinger

  Years, Two, Yellow

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

  Alan Stern

  Moon, Jupiter, Months

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• Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Thinking, Ninety Nine

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• My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Parent, Bumps, Rooms

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• The White House released documents it claims validates the president's (National Guard) service ... When deciphered the documents showed that in a one-year period, 1972 and 1973, Bush received credit for nine days of active National Guard service. The traditional term of service then and now for the National Guard is one weekend a month and two full weeks a year, meaning that Bush's nine-day stint qualifies him only for the National Guard's National Guard. That's the National Guard's National Guard, an Army of None.

  Jon Stewart

  Army, Weekend, Years

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• I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Hands, Aces

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• Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mountain, Minorities, Woods

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.194, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

  Gloria Estefan

  Dog, Eight, Turtles

  "Gloria Estefan pens a pup of a book". www.today.com. October 10, 2005.

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• Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Life, Men, Ninety Nine

  Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich (1991). “Newspaper Days”, p.69, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Land

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Thinking, Degrees

  "Rebooting the 'Cosmos'". Interview with Mike Kessler, www.gq.com. March 6, 2014.

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• The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.

  Jerry Stahl

  Pain, Mirrors, Relief

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• On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Night, Two, New Orleans

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• Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-
  nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Reality, Smell, Ninety Nine

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

  Aberjhani

  Prayer, Light, Gestation Period

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.

  Bo Burnham

  Men, Thinking, Cereal

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  Walter Murch

  Reflection, Years, Wind

  Michael Ondaatje, Walter Murch (2002). “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film”, p.9, A&C Black

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