Seven Quotes - Page 26

• If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

  Mickey Gilley

  Cutting, Pockets, Albums

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• Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back.

  Phil Mickelson

  Blow, Thinking, Eight

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• I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

  Jeff Dunham

  Guy, Said, Jugglers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

  Peter Straub

  Believe, Years, Too Much

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

  W. C. Fields

  Eight, Body, Lawyer

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• The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she's proud of the fact that her food is f---ing bad for you. If I were on at seven at night and loved by millions of people at every age, I would think twice before telling an already obese nation that it's OK to eat food that is killing us. Plus, her food sucks.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Night, Thinking, America

  “Paula Deen Reveals Diabetes Diagnosis” by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

  Karen Allen

  Eight, Years, Smoking

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• It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

  C. J. Dennis

  Business, Men, Eggs

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• When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Zero, Mean

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• I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Jobs, Home

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• At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reading, Character, Blue

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• My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

  Edward Abbey

  Cousin, Wall, Thinking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Veils, Salome

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Cities, Los Angeles, Suburbs

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• My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

  John Hume

  Children, Father, Support

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Sky

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• We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Iraq, Iran

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.globalresearch.ca. March 2, 2007.

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• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Cheer, Order

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• I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

  Saul Bellow

  Strong, Sleep, Eight

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• What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

  Philip Pullman

  Morning, Writing, Years

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• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Years, Intellectual, Training

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, War, Home

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• There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Water, Doe, Stories

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• For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Lap, Way

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• The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Years, Two

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

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