Nine Quotes - Page 20

• Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Eight, Average

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.

  Malcolm Goodwin

  Dream, Jobs, Growing Up

  "iZombie Actor Malcolm Goodwin: Life-Changing Leap of Faith". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Baby, Months

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

  Jeff Sessions

  Boys, Years, Play

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

  Joe Biden

  Exercise, Years, Lasts

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

  DJ Ashba

  Years, Guitar, Stuff

  "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

  Casey Neistat

  Son, Ninety Nine, Percent

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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• I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!"

  Mila Kunis

  Party, Fake, Exhausted

  "Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.

  Sandra Cisneros

  War, Cells, Jail

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sweet, Cake, Long

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

  Brenda Strong

  Attitude, Differences, Focus

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• Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Believe, Naps, Three

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd be ashamed. I'm proud that I sleep nine hours.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sleep, Naps, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I could be a comedian like Red Skelton - that's what I watched on TV - then maybe I would have friends. I just remember that if I told stories to my friends, they listened. And in my family, with nine people talking at the same time, it's really hard to get people to listen to you. We were all craving attention.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Dream, Talking, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

  Andrew Aydin

  Dream, Kings, School

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• One of our priorities when doing "March" is to sort of undo what we feel is the disservice done by what we call the Nine Words Problem. Which is that most American kids, whatever they do learn about the movement, especially in school, is usually limited to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream." And so there's sort of a layer of unreality; there's not a sense of continuity.

  Nate Powell

  Dream, Kings, School

  Source: www.salon.com

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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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• Do you know how many men that are out of work that just stand around on the corner just watching your daughters coming home from school? Today, with the hormonal things that they are putting in foods, these hormones, when you eat the meat, you'll find a nine-year-old daughter with breasts bigger than her mother's, hips wider than her mother's - and men haven't got anything to do but sit and watch you go and come from school.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

  William H. Macy

  Littles, Payoff, More Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.

  Sammy Hagar

  Dream, Eight, Names

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

  Sammy Hagar

  Color, Here I Am, Numbers

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Names, Long

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, School, Years

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

  Adrian Peterson

  Winning, Nfl, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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