Eight Quotes
1417 Eight quotes by 1187 unique authors
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God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day…
— Mark Twain
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I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so…
— Orhan Pamuk
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I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I…
— Orhan Pamuk
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To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
— Danielle de Niese
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Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why?…
— Eugene Jarecki
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Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole set. Individual chairs,…
— Judith Miller
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The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the…
— Paul Johnson
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When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if…
— John McEnroe
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I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
— Carmen Ejogo
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My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I…
— Luis von Ahn
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It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.
— Jon Huertas
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Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a…
— Deepika Padukone
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As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties…
— Dichen Lachman
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Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop, it slows down any momentum you…
— Cress Williams
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I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies…
— Nikki Blonsky
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My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to…
— Suriya
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Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do.
— Michelle Borth
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I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad ,and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we…
— Katie Lowes
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My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are…
— Lynn Shelton
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My mom is from Europe, so we always grew up eating organic foods and working out and keeping in good shape, sleeping eight hours a…
— Tiffany Dupont
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a…
— Unknown Author
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
— Taylor Lautner
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In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country…
— George Will
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When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom…
— Kylie Minogue
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Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over…
— Ringo Starr
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