Ten Quotes - Page 18

• Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.

  Woody Allen

  Paper, Toilets, Problem

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• A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, Years, Rocks

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• Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Brain, Use, Imagine

  "Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

  Paul Strand

  Dollars, Want, Print

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• I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Night, Speak English

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• I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

  Jim Carrey

  Believe, Years, Giving

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

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• Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you.

  Demetri Martin

  Two, Annoying, God Bless You

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• I must be cheaper now than I was ten years ago in order to get a laugh. It's not funny now if I leave the table and give the waiter a nickel tip, which was a laugh years ago. Today I must maneuver it so that somehow I get the waiter to give me a nickel tip.

  Jack Benny

  Order, Years, Giving

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• You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

  Steve Martin

  Opportunity, People, Income

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• They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, Night, Men

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.37, Zondervan

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• I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.

  Jon Stewart

  Joy, Teeth, Decay

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• It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

  James Agee

  Eye, Past, Years

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

  Miles Davis

  Cute, Mean, Men

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• Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

  Chris Patten

  Numbers, Politician, Vow

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• Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, Years, Today

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• George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

  Red Buttons

  Kids, Men, Years

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• Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Nine, Cures, Repeats

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• You might be a redneck if there are more than ten lawsuits currently pending against your dog.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, Might

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• A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

  Ron Atkinson

  Should Have, Feet, England

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

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• No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in.

  Tia Carrere

  Years, People, Acting

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• I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

  Artie Lange

  Drinking, Yankees, Years

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• I want to tell you about a woman I have been married to for ten years, my wife, Ann, who speaking truthfully, saved me from myself. Who saved me from destroying myself because of my background. Who saved me from wasting my life, drinking my life away, never fulfilling my dreams because of what I had come from, and truly believing and loving - truly the first person to ever truthfully, unconditionally love me.

  George Lopez

  Dream, Drinking, Believe

  George Lopez (2004). “Why You Crying?: My Long, Hard Look at Life, Love, and Laughter”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Party, Artist, Shoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mysterious Things, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.

  Johnny Simmons

  Character, Thinking, Color

  "Johnny Simmons On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Read or Listen Here". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.

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