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• I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Yoga, People

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• Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

  Michael J. Fox

  Kids, Giving, Shining

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• Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

  Michael Franti

  Creating, Band, Things I Love

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• I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Eight, Air, Years

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

  Noel Gallagher

  News, London, Firsts

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• I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

  Jerry Garcia

  Years, People, Trying

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• Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

  James A. Garfield

  Swimming, Men, Nine

  "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

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• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

  Frank Gehry

  Museums, Years, People

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• There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

  Martha Gellhorn

  France, Concentration, Camps

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• If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Years, Different

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• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Hands, Voice

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.313, University of Illinois Press

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• There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

  Ellie Goulding

  Mean, Band, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, School, Years

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  Larry Hagman

  Years, Play, Long

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• I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

  Mariska Hargitay

  New York, Thinking, Gun

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• I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

  Woody Harrelson

  School, College, Twenties

  "The Gospel Truths of Woody Harrelson". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

  Vaclav Havel

  Military, Hero, Creativity

  "Critic's Notebook; The Writers Who Shook a Government" by Michiko Kakutani, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 1990.

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• The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

  Helen Hayes

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Long

  "Strategic Grill Locations". 1999.

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• Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

  Hermann Hesse

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, Issues, Way

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• Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

  Hugh Hopper

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

  Whitney Houston

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "10 Things You Didn't Know About Whitney Houston" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2012.

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