Nine Quotes - Page 27

• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Change, Communication

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• All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

  Rex Hunt

  Kids, Sea, Fishing

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

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• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Basketball, Winning

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• I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

  Robert Kennedy

  Family, Children, Struggle

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman, Jeffrey Shulman (1988). “Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  House, Four, Judgment

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• I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Phases, Woods, Chopping

  "Oscar nominee: I was a tomboy" by Josh Eells, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2011.

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• Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Book, Arabia, Tactics

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.552, e-artnow

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• Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

  Sandra Lee

  Yards, Baking Soda, Salt

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• Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

  John Lennon

  Leadership, Law, Problem

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• The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Labor Force, Numbers, People

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• When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Needs, Citizens, Racist

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• We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

  John Lubbock

  People, Worry, Anxiety

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

  Bernie Mac

  Night, Breakfast Food, Poor

  Bernie Mac (2002). “I Ain't Scared of You”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Rocks, Climbing

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

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• I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

  Paul McCartney

  Marijuana, Japan, Withdrawal

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• I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Literature, Cigarette

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• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Errors, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.434, Vintage

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• The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

  Colin Mochrie

  Believe, People, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cat, Lifetime, Knows

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• I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

  Alanis Morissette

  Years, Careers, Lucky

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• I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

  Jose Mourinho

  Christmas, Father, Years

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• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Song, Party, Eight

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