Quotes with nine-to-five

Quotes 241 till 260 of 315.

  • Ahmed Ben Bella The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Mark Twain The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bryce Courtenay The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Casey Stengel The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Charles E. Popplestone The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • Benjamin Booker The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • George Miller The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
    George Miller
    comedian (1941 - 2003)
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  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Willie Shoemaker There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Cam Newton There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Bill Cosby There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bill Medley There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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