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• The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Years, People, Decision

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• You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Six, Week, Theater

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• When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Winning, Talking, People

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• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Reading, Silence

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• I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

  Al Gore

  Shoes, Two, Air

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• Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

  Joe Greene

  Cities, Kansas City, Two

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• But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

  Corey Haim

  Believe, Doctors, Talking

  "'The Lost Boys' star Corey Haim dead at 38; police suspect drug overdose" by Nancy Dillon and Stephanie Gaskell, www.nydailynews.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Teacher, Children, War

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• Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Weather, Hot

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Attitude, Years

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

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• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Hands, People

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

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• Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

  Steve Jobs

  Naps, Years, Apples

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.24, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Writing, Character

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Engineering, Numbers

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• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

  Victor Kiam

  Beach, Thinking, Appreciate

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• And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Seven Months, Seven Days, Six

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Years, Childhood, Endless

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• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

  Annie Lennox

  Birthday, Mean, Thirty Eight

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• I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

  Demi Lovato

  Years, Overeating

  "Bipolar Demi Lovato Talks Cutting, Eating Disorders", www.usmagazine.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

  "Mamet Talk" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2008.

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• I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

  George McGovern

  Tired, Sleep, Years

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• I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

  Moby

  Play, Scrabble, Tiles

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• After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

  Shemar Moore

  Years, Careers, Mind

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

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• I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

  Emily Mortimer

  Children, Husband, Citizens

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