Nine Years Quotes - Page 4

• Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Years, Nine, Young

  "Przepisy celne, ale ulgowe" ("Customs regulations, but reduced"), Essay by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Angora magazine, 1998.

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• I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

  Brady Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Years

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• My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

  William Kempe

  Eight, Years, Dancer

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• Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

  Star Jones

  Years, Nine, Pounds

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

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• I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Years, Nine

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• What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

  Spike Jonze

  Memories, Views, Years

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• She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

  Gloria Estefan

  Daughter, Years, Nine

  Comment to concert audience in Washington, D.C., September 8, 2004.

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• I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

  Darius McCrary

  Years, Giving, Roles

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Garden, Rocks

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France”, p.37

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• My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

  Eliza Coupe

  Dad, Team, School

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

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• If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

  Jacki Weaver

  Twilight, Years, Australia

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"

  Gary Myers

  Nfl, Years, Games

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• I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Theatre, Care

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• The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

  Michael Caine

  Years, Guy, Theatre

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• I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.

  Richard Jeni

  Mom, Mother, Sunday

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• I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.

  Christina Hendricks

  Character, Men, Years

  "Christina Hendricks: What Joan from start of ‘Mad Men’ would tell Joan at the end". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

  Peter Jackson

  Falling In Love, Kings, Boys

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.

  Andrew Aydin

  Book, Kids, Eight

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I tend to overcompensate for my long absences when I'm home by cooking and it's therapeutic to me - it's how I express love for my daughter. It felt good to do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, Home, Eight

  "Anthony Bourdain: 'Look, it's not normal, what I do.'". Interview with Adrian Lee, www.macleans.ca. October 31, 2016.

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• When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Brother, Eight, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Going to set, every day, and working with the incredible actors I get to work with is fulfilling. I've been doing this since I was nine years old, so it's always been something that I've been passionate about. It's always fed me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Years, Passionate, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

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• I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

  Scott Hamilton

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

  John Bright

  School, Years, Nine

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