Nine Quotes - Page 24

• I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak a word of English. Within a few months I lost all my Urdu and spoke only English and then I learned Urdu all over again when I was nine. Urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my English and it's sort of become my third language. English is my best language but was the second language I learned.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Funny Relationship, California, Three

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Successful, Eight

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't give a damn about anyone's gratification but their own.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Rna, Giving

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• Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. I also get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

  Jane Fonda

  Morning, Drinking, Sleep

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.orlandosentinel.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

  Robert Cormier

  Hard Work, Writing, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Hard Work, Home

  Source: supermotoo.blogspot.com

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• I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.

  Audra McDonald

  Fall, Artist, Challenges

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal.

  Mr. T

  Nice, Years, Goal

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Football, Mother

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

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• I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

  Ben Affleck

  Men, Numbers, World

  "Ben Affleck: Filmmaker of the Year 2012" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 15, 2012.

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• For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

  Jason Aldean

  Night, Thinking, Eight

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• I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

  Kim Alexis

  Running, Florida, Firsts

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• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

  Martin Amis

  Curves, Careers, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2001). “The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000”, Vintage

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Time, Morning

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Beauty, Years

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.1379, Jane Austen

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• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Valentine's Day, Affection

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 6 (1813)

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• My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Writing, Kids

  "Bacon Brothers Q&A: Getting the Band Back Together". Interview with Zach Dionne, www.billboard.com. November 20, 2012.

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• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

  George Bancroft

  Tongue, Slander, Disappointed

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• The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

  Ernie Banks

  Shining, Cubs, Sixty

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• The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

  Roseanne Barr

  Addiction, Moments, Fame

  "And I Should Know ShareThis". nymag.com. May 15, 2011.

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• You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

  Roseanne Barr

  Years, Firsts, Sometimes

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• Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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