Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Anne McCaffrey What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Boris Johnson What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to see Donald Trump do is start talking about his vision for leading the country and the policies that he would propose that would help hardworking American families who have struggled through the last few years and then also to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bruno Mars What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Carl Sagan What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 10
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Watson What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Barry Diller What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Woody Allen What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Barry Diller What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Carolyn See What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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