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• I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

  Ed Sheeran

  Daughter, Moving, Thinking

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

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• When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

  Grace Slick

  War, Soldier, Age

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• Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Singers, Might

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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• I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

  Rick Springfield

  Nails, Tools, Stuff

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• In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Girl, Real, Years

  Shortlist Interview, www.shortlist.com.

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• There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Differences, Twenties, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Mind, Shapes

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Death, Should Have, Accepted

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Six, Equity, Five

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• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, United States

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

  Peter De Vries

  Life, Morning, Inspiration

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• I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, School, Actresses

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• In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.

  Johnny Weir

  Vintage, Skills, Speaks French

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• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  Allen West

  Country, Years, Serious

  "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

  Billy Wilder

  Cutting, Finals, Firsts

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 206), 2004.

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• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Ninety Nine, People

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  Venus Williams

  Eight, Years, Play

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• I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

  Carnie Wilson

  Half, Weight, Four

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

  Robert Winston

  Father, Thinking, Doe

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• I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

  Shelley Winters

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Weight Loss

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• I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Mistake, Moving, Years

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• I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

  Vir Das

  Delhi, Belly

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• The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, War, Numbers

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