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• But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.

  Berry Gordy

  Stars, Years, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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• American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.

  Mel Brooks

  Morning, Sex, Kids

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

  Robert K. G. Temple

  Years, Athens, Faces

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• I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

  Tina Ambani

  Father, Sibling, Lost

  "Yesterday's Screen Heartbreaker Tina Munim, Now Ambani, Turns 60". Interview with Khalid Mohamed, www.thequint.com. November 2, 2017.

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• I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

  Tracie Thoms

  First Love, Thinking, Ideas

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• Weve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmers son. There was a time when I didnt, when I rebelled against it, but theres certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

  Joseph Mawle

  Son, Work Ethic, Generations

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Moving, Selfishness, Principles

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• What a fine-looking thing is war!
  Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Song, War, Gold

  Douglas William Jerrold (1846). “The Chronicles of Clovernook: With Some Account of the Hermit of Bellyfulle”, p.142

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• Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Needs, Arms, Steps

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• Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
  A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

  Plato

  Maids, Muse, Divine

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• The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Player

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Law, Possession, Humans

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• ... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

  Lois Wyse

  Office, World, Zips

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• ... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

  Edith Wharton

  Book, House, Library

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.216, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Lasts, Puppy

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• The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

  Agatha Christie

  Ocean, Pregnancy, Voyages

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

  E. J. Gold

  Ninety Nine, Self, Percent

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Lonely, Morning, New York

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• I don't like sex ... I'm a single working mom with nine cats, a dog-shark, a lizard, and a bunny. I don't go to bed, I pass out. The idea that I'd get to my bed and there'd be someone in there with whom I was supposed to have an activity is horrifying to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Mom, Dog, Sex

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• Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

  Evan Esar

  Fall, Winter, Climate

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• No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  "Prospects for Women in Writing" (speech), Portland, Me., Sept. 1986

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• Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

  Mary McGrory

  Children, Lying, Home

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• Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Marijuana, Two, Boston

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• Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

  Horace Greeley

  Rumor, World, Empty

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