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  • For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. -- Doug Larson
  • 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. -- Lily Tomlin
  • I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
  • Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. -- Peter Diamandis
  • I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable. -- Dick Van Patten
  • I wanted to leave Eight Is Enough for the Navy. -- Willie Aames
  • Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again -- Christopher Dodd
  • Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich -- Janet Evanovich
  • Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless -- Richard Viguerie
  • Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines. -- Melinda Gates
  • Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books. -- G. N. Devy
  • Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful. -- George W. Bush
  • Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young -- Susa Young Gates
  • Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys. -- Wayne Gretzky
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  • Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day! -- Bill Haywood
  • Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. -- Derrick Jensen
  • Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven. -- Clifton Collins, Jr.
  • Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world. -- Murray Walker
  • Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power. -- Zach Braff
  • Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth. -- Brooke Shields
  • When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight". -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight". -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as it's great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too. -- Ashley Madekwe
  • I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as its great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too. -- Ashley Madekwe
  • Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. -- Jeffrey Sachs
  • The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
  • Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix? -- Elayne Boosler
  • For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. -- Jessica Savitch
  • And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! -- Dr. Seuss
  • I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age. -- Nigel Mansell
  • Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. -- Stephen Fry
  • If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life. -- Jack Herer
  • Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. -- Jeff Valdez
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  • When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. -- Prince
  • I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. -- Will Rogers
  • When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. -- Margaret Walker
  • By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -- Robert Frost
  • Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration. -- David Bailey
  • Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. -- Jonathan Ive
  • Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me. -- Zig Ziglar
  • All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support. -- Ferguson Jenkins
  • Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.. -- Charles Jaffe
  • My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. -- Elizabeth Taylor
  • When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. -- Philip Emeagwali
  • Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. -- Chris Van Allsburg
  • I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. -- Lou Holtz
  • There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories. -- Mac Davis
  • I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. -- Nicolas Cage
  • Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. -- Bill Cosby
  • Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet. -- Jose Mujica
  • Most of the time, if I'm in a pickle, I'll call one of my brothers. They've usually got somewhat uplifting advice. One is six and a half years older and one is eight years older, so they've probably lived through whatever my problem is. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time. -- Sam Houston
  • My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake. -- David Guetta
  • When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
  • It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. -- William Faulkner
  • The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. -- Jerry Leiber
  • I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. -- Benazir Bhutto
  • With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. -- Melissa Rosenberg
  • When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' -- Nicolas Cage
  • You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward. -- Joel Osteen
  • I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages. -- Tamora Pierce
  • When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys. -- Ian Anderson
  • The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. -- Eminem
  • We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. -- Gary Kemp
  • I was rapping at eight. -- Nick Cannon
  • Men are creatures with eight hands. -- Jayne Mansfield
  • One in eight plant species face extinction. -- David Attenborough
  • Time is three eyes and eight elbows. -- Dogen
  • Fall down seven times, get up eight. -- Margi Preus
  • A good conscience is eight parts of courage. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • I started writing songs when I was eight. -- Wiz Khalifa
  • Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions! -- Barack Obama
  • Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. -- J. G. Ballard
  • I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. -- Guillermo del Toro
  • Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds. -- Kyle Dunnigan
  • I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. -- Jack Prelutsky
  • In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day. -- Piper Perabo
  • I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times. -- Linda Fiorentino
  • I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night. -- Tim Robbins
  • That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight. -- Groucho Marx
  • When you're eight years old nothing is your business. -- Lenny Bruce
  • Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. -- Jayne Mansfield
  • I wrote my first play when I was eight. -- Pam Gems
  • I can play all I know in eight bars. -- Charlie Parker
  • Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I was a lot braver when I was eight. -- Claire Cook
  • I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films -- Guillermo del Toro
  • I study chess eight hours a day, on principle. -- Alexander Alekhine
  • Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there? -- Pittacus Lore
  • My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children. -- Caitlin Moran
  • Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record, -- Larisa Latynina
  • I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. -- Demi Lovato
  • I got eight O-levels at school...zero in every subject. -- Paul Gascoigne
  • The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. -- Alice Cooper
  • Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands. -- Jayne Mansfield
  • I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. -- Jeffery Deaver
  • Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time. -- Bob Seger
  • I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. -- Jackson Browne
  • I've been estranged from my father since I was eight. -- Anna Torv
  • seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll -- Chris Bradford
  • Don't stay in one place for eight or nine hours. -- Bernie Sanders
  • Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now. -- Jonathan Stroud
  • I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it. -- Emma Watson
  • I got into politics when I was eight years old. -- Jonathan Krohn
  • I slept hard last night. I had an eight-hour raging erection. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart. -- Cathy Ferguson
  • There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. -- Billy Carter
  • Somedays you're the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball -- Pablo
  • We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other. -- Josh Silver
  • A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands. -- Laozi
  • All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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