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• The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

  Gore Vidal

  Answers, Problem, Seconds

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• You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

  Chuck Close

  Giving, Guarantees, Alive

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• Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

  Megan Lee

  Mom, Passion, Acting

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". GLITTER interview, glittermagrocks.com.

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• I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

  Diane Warren

  Encouragement, Adversity, Doors

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• What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

  Bill Robinson

  Illinois, People, House

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• Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Jesus, Teaching, Reading

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• I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Philosophy, Thinking

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mile Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hours, Masters, Valuable

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, Half, May

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dies, I Can

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• When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Encyclopedia Britannica, Usual, Favourite

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• Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

  Saint Augustine

  Ninety, Turns, Percent

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• My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

  John Flavel

  Soul, World, Thousand

  John Flavel (1698). “Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man: Wherein the Divine Original, Excellent and Immortal Nature of the Soul are Opened ...”, p.42

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• Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

  Don Meyer

  Years, Want, Coaches

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• The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Teenager, Stupid, Giving

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• A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Men, Victory

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

  Sarah Paulson

  Careers, Details, Looks

  Interview with Julianne Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1, 2014.

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• I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.

  James Ponsoldt

  Nice, Writing, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.

  Richard Thaler

  Should Have, Years, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.

  Richard Thaler

  Mean, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Order, Years

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• The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Paper, Examination, Six

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• I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Ignorance, Grandmother

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• I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Suffering, Forget, Share

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• If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Noses, Happens

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