Quotes with ninety-nine

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  • George Bernard Shaw When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Caroline Lawrence When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John F. Kennedy When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Antonin Scalia Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Caprice Bourret You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Bill Walton No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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