Seven Quotes - Page 31

• I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Giving Up, Cocky

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• Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.

  Robert Greenberg

  Children, Teaching, Successful

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• It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

  Martin Lel

  Brother, Two, People

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• After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

  Luc Besson

  Tired, Shooting, Littles

  "Luc Besson: Why I couldn't give up making films". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

  Scott Brooks

  Kids, College, Athletic

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• My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.

  Gregoire

  Mother, Morning, Coffee

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• In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

  Genghis Khan

  Years, Space, World

  "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, p. 55, 2006.

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• It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

  Jean Guitton

  Teaching, Blow, Humanity

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• Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

  Judith Hooper

  Facts, Seven Days, Wonder

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• I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

  Richard Helms

  Years, People, Done

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• You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

  Mel Tillis

  Sister, Mother, Brother

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• I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

  Anna Held

  Years, Engagement, Want

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• Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

  Colin Farrell

  Grateful, Years, Addiction

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• It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

  Eminem

  Song, Years, Addiction

  "Eminem admits he 'almost died' from drug overdose" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

  Wilford Brimley

  Son, Grandchildren, Three

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• Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

  Raegan Butcher

  Army, Years, Prison

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• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  Eberhard Weber

  Nice, Years, Long

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  College, Iron, Watches

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• About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

  Sidney Altman

  Book, Years, Saws

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• I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

  Chili Davis

  Curves, Knuckles, Used

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• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  Abbe Pierre

  Keys, Years, Seven Years

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• I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

  April Winchell

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• Seven hearts the journey make.
  Seven ways the hearts will break.
  Bravest heart will carry on
  When sleep is death, and hope is gone.
  Look in the fiery jaws of fear
  And see the answer white and clear,
  Then throw away all thoughts of home,
  For only then your quest is done.

  Emily Rodda

  Sleep, Home, Heart

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Keys

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• I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.

  Emanuel Celler

  Morning, Wine, School

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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