Nine Quotes - Page 25

• Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.

  Mario Batali

  Night, Ninety Nine, Dragons

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Worry, Mind, Care

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• My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

  Lewis Black

  Father, Labs, Holes

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• I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

  Lewis Black

  Father, Kids, Golf

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

  Sara Blakely

  Sweet, Husband, Night

  "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

  Orlando Bloom

  Running, Girlfriend, Race

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• Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

  Jan Brewer

  Gun, Ninety Nine, People

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• In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Want, Matter

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• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  Adam Clayton

  Loyalty, Jobs, Work

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

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• I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Divorce, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

  Joan Collins

  Theatre, Benefits, Firsts

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

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• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Brother, Betrayal

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

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• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Happiness, Running, Positive Thinking

  "Coolidge: An American Enigma". Book by Robert Sobel, p. 242, 2000.

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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Political, Politics, Trouble

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• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Class, Technique

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• I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

  Tom Cruise

  Pride, Three, Way

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

  John Cusack

  Lying, People, Reason

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• One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mistake, School, Years

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

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• The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

  Vin Diesel

  Baby, Monday, Weekend

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• How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

  Marlene Dietrich

  I Love You, Broken Heart, Love Is

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  Matt Dillon

  Dad, White, Wagons

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• Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clever, Book, Reading

  "Lothair".

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

  Black Elk

  Summer, Horse, Years

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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