Eighty Quotes - Page 15

• Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

  Nita Lowey

  Children, Gun, America

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• We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Lying, Men, Masturbation

  "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Doubt, World

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• In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

  Mary Wesley

  Friends, Vocabulary, Important

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• The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

  Yuval Ne'eman

  Believe, Science, Years

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• The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Boys, Night

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• My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Work, World, Week

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?

  Tim Cook

  Revenue, Company, Percent

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• During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

  Donatella Versace

  People, Chic, Wanted

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

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• Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.

  Marina Lewycka

  Mother, Memories, Father

  "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

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• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Witty, Elderly

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• I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, Risk, Aerosmith

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Hands, Expectations

  "Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother". Book by Carolyn Mahaney, 2003.

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• I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

  Roscoe Arbuckle

  Funny, Pounds, Obesity

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• Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

  Jay Samit

  Jobs, Hate, Work You Love

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015

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• Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Average, Years, Rooms

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• I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

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• A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

  Russell Banks

  Couple, Years, Nyu

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Fall, Boys

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• The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

  Ansel Adams

  Keys, Eight, Play

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• Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

  Jules Verne

  Squares, Land, Soul

  Jules Verne, George Makepeace Towle (2011). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

  Kristan Higgins

  Dog, Trying, Tears

  Kristan Higgins (2012). “Catch of the Day”, p.75, HQN Books

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• When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

  Khushwant Singh

  Life, Fate, Doors

  Khushwant Singh (1996). “The collected novels: Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi”

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• About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

  Tom Clancy

  Running, Country, Destiny

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