Ten Quotes - Page 26

• What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

  Fay Weldon

  Worry, Stop Worrying, Minutes

  Fay Weldon (2011). “What Makes Women Happy”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.

  Scott Meyers

  Writing, Years, Iron

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• Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

  Donald Hall

  Moving, Home, Years

  Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988”

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• Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

  Lionel Johnson

  Years, Library, Needs

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• I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.

  Mary Robison

  Sarcastic, Brother, People

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• Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

  James Altucher

  Coffee, Men, Dollars

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• I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

  Joan Crawford

  Hands, House, Steps

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

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• So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

  Roger Ebert

  Film Critics, Target, Today

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• One, two, three four five,
  All is well I am alive,
  Six,seven,eight nine ten,
  All is well, no whining then!

  Eugene Sue

  Eight, Two, Three

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• I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

  Branch Rickey

  School, Doctors, Law

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

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• That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Self, Enlightenment, Delusion

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• I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will be number five through ten. That way they won't kick you off after you sell it.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Writing, Two, Numbers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.

  Alonso Duralde

  Reading, Kids, Ideas

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

  Sally Mann

  Airplane, Garden, Versailles

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• You will be the same person ten years from now except for the books you read, the places you go, the people you meet, and the scripture you memorize.

  Jay Strack

  Book, Years, People

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• In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Years

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• This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

  Mr. Lee

  Country, Years, Cities

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• It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Majority, Mutation, Generations

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• One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cures, Gloomy, Sentiments

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• Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ten Commandments, Commandments

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• history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

  Marthe Bibesco

  History, Upside Down, Immortality

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.

  Laurie David

  Mother, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out

  Christian Cooke

  Two, Watches, Up To You

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  Bernard Fanning

  New York, Cities, Two

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