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• Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Cinema, World, Film

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• And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Opportunity, Years

  Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Zero, Years

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• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Water

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• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

  George William Curtis

  Teenage, Mistake, Believe

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• There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

  John Cusack

  Lying, People, Nine

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Dance, Teacher

  "you shall above all things be glad and young" l. 13 (1938)

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• I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

  Johnny Depp

  Romantic, Gambling, Height

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• You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Christian, Jesus, School

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• I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

  Cameron Diaz

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

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• I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Years, Cities

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• I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

  Beth Ditto

  Cute, Healthy, Faults

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Real, Spring, Opportunity

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Life, Women, Memorable

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• A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

  David Eagleman

  Stars, Mean, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.6, Vintage

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• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lakes, Blue, Oysters

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• I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

  Britt Ekland

  Years, Four, Married

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• There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

  Elizabeth I

  Country, Sake, Anxious

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

  Euripides

  War, Soldier, Funny Leadership

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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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• When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

  Will Ferrell

  Soccer, Player, Comedian

  "Duncan Riddle - America's Adult Soccer Ambassador". Interview with Diane Scavuzzo, goalnation.com. October 19, 2015.

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• My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Team, Independent, Lasers

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