Eight Quotes - Page 17

• I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

  Ryan McGinley

  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

  Alia Shawkat

  Monday, Night, People

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Mean, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real life of an NBA player. And it's not all about I just do everything, like I'm the hardest worker, or I love to play basketball every day, I go to the gym at eight and don't leave until five. No, that's not how it is. That's not how I am.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Real, Player

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Next

  "Donald Trump Is Apparently Too Intelligent For Intelligence Briefings", www.esquire.com. December 12, 2016.

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• You have to remember, eight out of 10 businesses in America, they file their business as individuals, as people.

  Paul Ryan

  America, People, Remember

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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• Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Years, Europe, President

  Source: time.com

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• I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

  Steven Knight

  Giving, Hours, Format

  Source: deadline.com

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• The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

  Seamus Heaney

  Self, Years, Safety

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Years

  Barack Obama, Michelle Obama (2017). “Farewell Speeches”, p.28, Melville House

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• What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Defense, Campaigns

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• Sixty-eight percent of the pregnancies in the United States are neither prepared for nor expected. Of those sixty-eight percent, quite a bit end in abortion, but still there are a large number of children that come in this world without being expected.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Pregnancy, Numbers

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United States, the United States Congress, many of the Republicans met, and they declared that they would never allow his legislative program to succeed. And for eight years they fought him.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Years, President, Succeed

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.

  Al Sharpton

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Mean, Hard Work

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.

  Daniel Handler

  Religious, Wings, Organization

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 21, 2017.

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• Barack Obama's been president for about eight hours; President Obama was here for eight years. So if you want to talk about numbers that matter, it's quantifying all the losses - the women who were slid into poverty, those who can't find meaningful work, and their children who deserve a better life.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Meaningful, Children, Loss

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Thinking, Years, Media

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

  Dick Gregory

  Block, Men, Black

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

  John Hurt

  Memories, War, School

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• It's always a job when you're the reason they're assembling. If you're just doing shows and you're on a lineup with eight other guys, it's fun, it's great.

  Jay Mohr

  Jobs, Fun, Guy

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.

  Jay Mohr

  America, People, Office

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Mean, People

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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