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• To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

  Roseanne Barr

  Writing, Discipline, Mind

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  Bernard Baruch

  Birthday, Years, Age

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• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

  Martha Beck

  Looks, Ads, Products

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Joy, Bird

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

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• This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Rain, Noses, Hours

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.5, 谷月社

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• Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Book, School, Boys

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• The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

  Buffalo Bill

  Journey, Average, Two

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

  Lewis Black

  Drama, School, Yale

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• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

  William Blackstone

  Justice, Suffering, Innocence

  "Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries".

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Men, Roosters, Hens

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• One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Change, Years, Wish

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Power, People

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• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Suggestions, Liberalism, Ten Commandments

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?

  Tom Brady

  Fun, Hair, Years

  "Tom Brady on Hair: "You Cut It, It Grows Back"". Interview with Matt Sebra, www.gq.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

  Jo Brand

  Three, Gigs, Nervous

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• Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

  Jo Brand

  Years, Style, Watches

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

  Garth Brooks

  Running, Song, Nashville

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• Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

  David R. Brower

  Space, Earth, Rockets

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• We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Nature, Native American, Owl

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• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Music, Years, Piano

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• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Warrior, Boys

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