Nine Quotes - Page 13

• I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.

  Ray Allen

  Basketball, Kids, Eight

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• Our team goal is pretty simple ... basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.

  Curtis Granderson

  Team, Simple, Play

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• To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Play, League

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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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• It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Writing, Two

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• At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eight, Light, Rooms

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• Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

  Argus Hamilton

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

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• When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Children, Effort, Tasks

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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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• I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.

  ASAP Rocky

  Hate, Rapper, Hype

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Cake, Expectations, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• The best illustration I can give of his talent is that at Manchester United there was always a possession drill in training designed to develop our passing ability, which might be three players against another three players, or six versus six, or nine versus nine. But no matter what the numbers were, the side with Paul Scholes on their team would always win by keeping the most possession.

  Gary Neville

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Scholes is simply the best English player of his generation". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 15, 2012.

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• Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Battle

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• Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

  George S. Clason

  Desire, Coins, Pay

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.

  Vaclav Smil

  Morning, Book, Eight

  "This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that.

  Paula Poundstone

  Dog, Cat, Years

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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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, Firsts, Wells

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• Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.

  Amy Webb

  Dating, Email, Four

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• No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

  Jack Benny

  Believe, People, Matter

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Taught Us, Self

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• Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Sea

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• We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Horse, Cancer, Years

  "Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1996.

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