Eighty Quotes
247 quotes by 223 authors
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I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to…
— James A. Michener
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Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
— David Pleat
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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
— William E. Gladstone
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According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California…
— Ann Coulter
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Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams…
— Kristy Hinze
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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years…
— Sojourner Truth
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I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my…
— Noel Fielding
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Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some…
— Bob Simon
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We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history…
— Billy Barty
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I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate,…
— Thrity Umrigar
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At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
— Brian Tracy
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Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous…
— Ansel Adams
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
— Edward Abbey
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My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come…
— Meg Whitman
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About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler…
— Tom Clancy
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When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred,…
— Khushwant Singh
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When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
— Kristan Higgins
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Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She…
— Marina Lewycka
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Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?
— Tim Cook
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