Ten Quotes

• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ninety Nine, Giving, Political

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Men, Odds

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Men, Years

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

  Buddy Rich

  Creativity, Thinking, Play

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• When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Leadership, Anger, Speak

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• Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Life, Motivational, Faith

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Wall, Drinking

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• Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?

  Emma Donoghue

  Heart, Cutting, Kissing

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• Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

  Andrew Marr

  Long, Rude, Pennies

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• I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.

  David Chipperfield

  Real, Museums, Media

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonatahan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

  Brian Tracy

  Research, Lasts, Customers

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• It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Live webchat: Jasper Fforde" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Summer, Adventure, Portland Oregon

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• Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Two

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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• I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

  Steve Alford

  Blessed, Opportunity, Player

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• We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.

  Kyle Petty

  Children, Lost Ones, Thousand

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• The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Ems, May

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.

  Dallas Willard

  People, Priorities, Wish

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• It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

  Lauren Willig

  Battle, Usual, Sniping

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

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• If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

  Chris Abani

  Junk, Mail, Minutes

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• If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you dont quite know what problems are worth working on.

  Richard Hamming

  Years, Doors, Office

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• A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

  Alber Elbaz

  Song, Book, Writing

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• The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

  N.K. Jemisin

  Adventure, Character, Clouds

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• I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

  Hamish Bowles

  Fashion, Rocks, Years

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• We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos.  Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Spring, Long

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