Quotes 141 till 160 of 257.
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
― Franklin Pierce Adams
American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960) -
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html -
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!
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