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  • Woody Allen Eighty percent of success is showing up.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Fontenelle... said, you remember, to the damsel of eighteen, 'Ah, Madam, would that I were eighty once more.
    Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1 April 1921
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Betty Shabazz Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Tony Benn I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Brooke Elliott I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Anna Held I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Burt Rutan I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bill Mumy I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Stew Leonard If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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  • Emily Brontë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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