Nine Quotes - Page 7

• We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Prima Donnas

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• Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Law, Ideas

  "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to!

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Girl, Book, People

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• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  Marge Piercy

  Lying, Cat, Exercise

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• Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Kids, Majority, Trouble

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• To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Ninety Nine, Bacteria

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• I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Puppets, Evening

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• Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Ocean, Ninety Nine, Ice

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• Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

  Christopher Reeve

  Real, College, Atmosphere

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.

  Arthur Laffer

  Zero, Groups, Income

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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• Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes, passions, loves, and hates, in her fears and her foibles, a mother will see herself at the same age. You are far enough away to have some perspective on what your daughter is going through. Still, you are close enough, if reminded, to feel it all again.

  Stella Chess

  Mother, Daughter, Attitude

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• The nine of us being together is more important than anything else.

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Important, Together, Being Together

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• Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

  Im Yoona

  Meaningful, Ties, People

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• We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.

  Kwon Yuri

  Shining, Snsd, Stage

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• I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under
  because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.

  Snoop Dogg

  Kids, Clean, I Can

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• What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Stars, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Reading, Struggle

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• I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

  Dave Winfield

  Running, Home, Careers

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• I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

  Andy Pettitte

  Couple, Eight, Mph

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• Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.

  Sammy Sosa

  Fun, Tired, Years

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• Lars Porsena of Clusium
  By the Nine Gods he swore
  That the great house of Tarquin
  Should suffer wrongs no more.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  House, Suffering, Should

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• The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

  Colin Powell

  Independent, Law, Lasts

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• A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
  A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
  A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

  Laozi

  Journey, Feet, Towers

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• The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Thinking, Broken, Doubt

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• The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Organization, People, Energy

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