Eight Quotes
1417 Eight quotes by 1187 unique authors
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I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.
— Howard Dean
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Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions!
— Barack Obama
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great…
— Sebastian Barry
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I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr.…
— Dizzy Dean
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something…
— Martin Luther
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know…
— Lorrie Moore
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God…
— Kevin DeYoung
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So…
— Alan Kay
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Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29... What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young
— Susa Young Gates
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I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.
— John B. S. Haldane
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I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.
— Bill Hicks
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Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced…
— Dave Winfield
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important…
— Ben Chandler
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People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and…
— Bobby Lee
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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
— Chris Van Allsburg
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You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to…
— Richard Yates
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!
— Bill Haywood
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that…
— Utah Phillips
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I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On…
— Royal Robbins
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