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• I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Years, Pounds

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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Believe, Eight

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Littles, Company

  "An Interview with Future California Sen. Carly Fiorina". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Way, Littles

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• I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

  Harrison Ford

  Retirement, Children, Growing Up

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• I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

  Michael J. Fox

  Growing Up, Ambition, Hockey

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• I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Movie, Summer, Daughter

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

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• I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

  Jamie Foxx

  Christmas, Valentine, Years

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• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

  Anatole France

  Positive, Encouraging, Education

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• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

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• Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

  Frank Gehry

  Father, Mean, Kitchen

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Baby, Children, Caring

  "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

  Matt Groening

  Love Is, Bed, Twenties

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett

  Cocky, Ninety Nine, Voice

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• When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

  William Hague

  Believe, Home, Hypocrite

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

  Tom Hanks

  Hair, Guy, Needs

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• Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

  David Hasselhoff

  Ninety Nine, People, Call Me

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• If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Missing

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• Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Acceptance, Creating, Peers

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• 'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Baby, Long, People

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Teacher, Children, War

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• What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Attitude, Boss, Unemployment

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

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• Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Eight, Naps, Weather

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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