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• Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

  Angie Stone

  Strong, Children, Integrity

  "The Stone Age: Angie Stone on her new album, fiance and D'Angelo". "Essence" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  Taylor Swift

  Stockbrokers, Knows

  "You Belong with Me". www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2011.

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• As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

  Helen Thomas

  Jobs, Real, Years

  "Bob Schieffer Whacks Bernie Goldberg: He 'Makes A Living Criticizing CBS News'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. April 9, 2009.

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• When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Men, Years

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2012.

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• The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Art, Peace

  Morihei Ueshiba (2002). “The Art of Peace”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

  Emma Watson

  Shoes, Pairs, Pair Of Shoes

  "Emma Watson’s Surprising Shoe Admission". www.vogue.co.uk. June 26, 2013.

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• Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

  Emma Watson

  Wise, Crazy, College

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• I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Years, Dresses

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• I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

  Orson Welles

  Two, Hustle, Trying

  Interview with Leslie Megahey for The Orson Welles Story (1982). "Orson Welles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)" by Mark Estrin, University Press of Mississippi, p. 209, 2002.

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• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Editing

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  Venus Williams

  Years, Play, Tennis

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• I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

  Rainn Wilson

  Children, Grief, Years

  "Rainn Wilson Talks The End Of 'The Office,' Previews OWN 'SoulPancake' Special And Calls For Gun Control After Newtown Shooting". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Get Up, Okay

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• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  Rachel Zoe

  Years, Knowing, People

  "Rachel Zoe's Style DOs and DON'Ts" by Rachel Zoe, www.glamour.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

  Felicia Day

  Games, Personality, Littles

  "How Felicia Day Recruited Millions For Her Guild". Interview with Gus Mastrapa, www.wired.com. September 29, 2009.

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• Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Play, Two

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• There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

  Ezra Pound

  Change, Book, Men

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Summer, Dark, Hands

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.

  Clive Barker

  Pride, Class, Thieves

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• The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 06, 2014

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• Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich

  Janet Evanovich

  Kissing, Bye, Cuffs

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• Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

  Warren Ellis

  Dog, Air, People

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• A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Kids, Night

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• Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tools, Purpose, Mouths

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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