Ten Quotes - Page 9

• My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Responsibility, Answers, Doe

  Letter to an editor who had offered him $200 for 2,000 words. Quoted by Eleanor Blau in the NewYork Times, 24 Aug1989.

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• I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

  Robert Reed

  Eye, Self, Years

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• When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Zero, Mean

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• Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.

  John Adams

  Children, Land, Two

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• "Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

  Charles Williams

  Aunt, Opposites, Numbers

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• I'm certainly an imperfect man. And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I've been redeemed from my sins. So I know that God doesn't call me to do a specific thing, God hasn't given me a list, a Ten Commandments of things to act on the first day. What God calls us to do is follow his will. And ultimately that's what I'm going to try to do.

  Scott Walker

  Jesus, Men, Blood

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Clerks

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• I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every time I get a call I see the fish go like this <<<>>><<>><<<<. I go down to the pet store and said, "Give me another ten guppies, I got a lot of calls yesterday."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Phones

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• I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Believe, Digital, Effects

  Source: screenrant.com

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• If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

  Colin Firth

  Teacher, School, Math

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Talking, Dollars, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

  I. M. Pei

  Years, Europe, Middle East

  Source: archtalks.com

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• I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, Way, Lasts

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

  Susanne Bier

  Fun, Long, Healthy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

  Claude Lelouch

  People, Curiosity, Sometimes

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

  Laura Benanti

  Teenager, Thinking, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.

  David Byrne

  Song, Thinking, Two

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

  Zakk Wylde

  Baseball, Nfl, Yards

  Source: www.legendaryrockinterviews.com

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• The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

  Harvey Mackay

  Powerful, Two, Letters

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : The Mackay MBA of selling in the real world". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• "The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to successfully combine performance with reliability the first time around. That could shake things up a bit when it comes team hierarchy.

  Michael Schumacher

  Team, Mean, Eight

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

  Pat Benatar

  Years, Play, Twelve

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really respond to the show and then we got ten Emmy nominations, USA sort of said, "Oh, I think maybe we have something here."

  Debra Messing

  Thinking, Usa, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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