Seventeen Quotes - Page 8

• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

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

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• Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Practice, Looks, Massachusetts

  "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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• I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Blessing, Men, Years

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

  Kinky Friedman

  Writing, Hot, Rejected

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• A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys…And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.

  Annie Oakley

  Queens, Home, Boys

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• I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Suffering, Half

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

  Satyajit Ray

  Two, Long, Stories

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, America, Bipolar

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• But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Summer, Book

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• In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

  George Sweeting

  Jesus, Responsibility, Men

  George Sweeting (2012). “How to Begin the Christian Life: Following Jesus as a New Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

  John Fox, Jr.

  Wise, Men, Ponds

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• I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Numbers, Looks, Thirty

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.25, Delacorte Press

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• At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

  Frank Warren

  Years, Waiting, Wake Up

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• Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis seventeen times in a row.

  Vitas Gerulaitis

  Beats

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• If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 05, 2016

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• When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch.

  Josh Duhamel

  Girl, Children, Moving

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• In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

  Anna Akhmatova

  Years, Waiting In Line, One Day

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

  Arabella Weir

  Book, Names, Voice

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• I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

  Busta Rhymes

  Hair, Records, Growing

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

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• Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Blow, Mtv, Pimp

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• I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

  Jim Dale

  Kids, Boys, Saws

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

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• This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Titles, Would Be

  Girl, Interrupted (1993)

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• If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

  Maude Royden

  Inspirational, Women, Want

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• You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.

  John Lennon

  Teenage, Children, Hate

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wine, Glasses, Pigs

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