Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Billy Tauzin New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Brad Holland New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Brandon Cruz New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Jimmy Connors New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Evelyn Waugh News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Karl Kraus News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated - serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspaper: A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Folds Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Asa Gray Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Max Lerner Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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