Seven Quotes - Page 7

• In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Play, Hours

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• I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

  Gary Numan

  Baby, Cousin, Brother

  "Gary Numan: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Regret, Seven Months

  "Conan O'Brien quips about next career move: nudity" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, Marla Lehner, www.cnn.com. January 23, 2010.

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• I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

  Chris O'Dowd

  Uncles, Mean, Kids

  "Our Hilarious Interview with Friends With Kids Star Chris O'Dowd: "Women Just Want To Spoon Me."". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 8, 2012.

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• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  Frances O'Grady

  Country, Data, Imf

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• Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

  Yoko Ono

  Cells, Years, Body

  "This much I know" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

  Susan Orlean

  Character, Thinking, Three

  "Wordy Rappinghood" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Trust, Eight

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

  Clive Owen

  Drama, School, Europe

  "Clive Owen: I would do anything for my family". Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. July 2, 2012.

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• My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

  Bettie Page

  Dark, Victory, Actresses

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Feb 18, 2014

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• I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

  Gordon Parks

  Cameras, Dollars, Fifty

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• I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Joy, Four

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• I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

  James Patterson

  Book, Thinking, Able

  "Surviving Summer Camp In James Patterson's 'Middle School'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 22, 2013.

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• The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

  Neil Peart

  Cities, Gold, Spurs

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• There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

  Tom Robbins

  Stories, Existence, Stills

  "Novelist Tom Robbins Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 5, 2010.

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• Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

  Julia Roberts

  Dad, Years, Play

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner and Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April, 2012.

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• Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Orange, Years

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• Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

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• I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clouds, Airports, Dense

  Haruki Murakami (2004). “Vintage Murakami”, Vintage

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• Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

  Tom Peters

  Rap, Decision, Leader

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• I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Plato, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nice, Would Be, Mouths

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Land, League, Three

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Howl's Moving Castle”, p.1, Harper Collins

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