Nine Quotes - Page 8

• People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

  John Lennon

  Eight, People, Being Different

  "Lennon Remembers, Part Two". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. February 4, 1971.

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• I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

  W. C. Fields

  Cigar

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• Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality-The Compound Effect is it! I plan to use this book to go back and look at what I need to again work on in my own life! Buy ten copies, one for yourself and nine more for those you love, and pass them out now-those who get it will thank you!

  David Bach

  Dream, Real, Book

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• Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, Modern, Activity

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “The Problem of China”, p.204, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

  Tony Benn

  Lonely, Morning, Children

  "Tony Benn: I'm not frightened by death - my wife taught me it's an adventure" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. August 3, 2013.

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• Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

  H. L. Mencken

  Son, Government, Political

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• During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  George Orwell

  Art, Generations, Entertainment

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.

  Zella Day

  Strong, Nice, Guitar

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• With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

  John Boyne

  Children, Distance, Book

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  E. P. Thompson

  Couple, Europe, Groups

  1975 On Britain's entry into the EEC, in the Sunday Times, 27 Apr.

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• In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Years, Parent, Gold

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• I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

  Melville Fuller

  Mother, Children, Winter

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• You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.

  Stephen Ames

  Two, Three, Firsts

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• Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Powerful, Attitude, Negative

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• But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Ninety Nine, Coins

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.68, Charisma Media

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• I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Travel, Couple, Home

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• I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, Chinese, Dinner

  "Brooke Shields on Beauty, Marriage, And Self-Esteem". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 01, 2001.

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• Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

  Tom Hardy

  Vanity, People, Doe

  "Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

  Usher

  Children, Thinking, Environment

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

  Winston Churchill

  Matter, Doctrine, Misery

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• I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Women, Struggle, Issues

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• ... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Past, Wish

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• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Friends, Father, Angel

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• Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

  Robert Graves

  Hands, Poetry, Trying

  "Ten key things about... poetry" by Dorota Nosowicz, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2000.

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