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• I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Mean, Thinking, Paris

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• As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Years, President, Vices

  Eulogy for Ronald Reagan, delivered 11 June 2004, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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• The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Sky, Twenties

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press

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• When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

  Nicolas Cage

  Beach, Book, Philosophical

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• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  Laurel Clark

  Beautiful, Memories, Motherhood

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• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  Harlan Coben

  Sleep, Responsibility, Age

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• The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

  Alice Cooper

  Feet, Steps, Minutes

  Interview with CBC, 2006.

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• My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

  Alice Cooper

  Country, Giving Up, School

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• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Winning, House

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help". www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Shoes, Car

  "Can’t sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Annoyed, Fans, Would Be

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

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• The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Dad, Thinking

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• I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

  Roald Dahl

  Dark, Littles, Six

  "Great dynasties of the world: The Dahls" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

  Larry David

  Writing, Actors, Pages

  "Larry David: More Enthusiasm, Curbed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 23, 2005.

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• I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

  Mos Def

  Song, Ideas, Space

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• If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Country, Speak English, Appreciate

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• As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

  Peter Diamandis

  Earth, May, Asteroids

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Bed, Toilets

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• In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

  Novak Djokovic

  Years, People, Laughing

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• I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Brother, Laughter, Keys

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• I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

  Steve Earle

  Tired, Views, States

  "Steve Earle, Our Woody Guthrie, Takes Our Pulse On Low Highway" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2013.

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• My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, School, Eye

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• The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

  Eminem

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

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• Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

  Paloma Faith

  Dad, Years, Spain

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Wrestling, Athlete

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