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My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace. -- Melissa Bean
Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory) -- Terry Goodkind
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny. -- Eva Longoria
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists. -- Kage Baker
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does? -- Philip Johnson
A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942. -- Vladimir Peniakoff
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee -- Chris Cleave
Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children. -- Fred Small
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) -- John Irving
Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your liberators are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: Only you yourself can be your liberator! -- Wilhelm Reich
The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity. -- Mao Zedong
Larry King has been married more times than Henry the Eighth. We used to have that rhyme to keep track of them. 'Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.' With Larry I think it goes, 'Divorced, beheaded, divorced, escaped. Zombie, lesbian, disappeared, inflatable. -- Craig Ferguson
Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me. -- Steven Tyler
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I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York. -- Kristen Wiig
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. -- Ted Turner
I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton. -- Stellan Skarsgard
I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that. -- Derek Jeter
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard. -- Dan Quisenberry
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it. -- Aaron Paul
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel. -- Louise Penny
My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. -- Mitch Pileggi
How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes? -- Isaiah Thomas
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason. -- Shilpa Shetty
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. -- Taylor Swift
When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them. -- Shantel VanSanten
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. -- Andrea Hirata
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted. -- John Williams
I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight. -- Ron Perlman
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in. -- Channing Tatum
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. -- Abraham Lincoln
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. -- Jason Wiles
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it. -- Blair Underwood
I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. -- Seth Shostak
Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up. -- Lindsey Shaw
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?' -- Tess Gerritsen
You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too. -- Tim Hudson
I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh. -- Dontrelle Willis
Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy. -- Brad Ausmus
The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams. -- Charlene Costanzo
Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning. -- Jerry Coleman
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The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world! -- Albert Einstein
Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools. -- Jeremy London
In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects. -- Aaron Lazar
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. -- Salman Rushdie
Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. -- Dennis Hopper
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. -- Gordon Bell
I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book. -- J. K. Rowling
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. -- Thomas Perry
I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. -- Christine Lavin
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. -- Lisa See
There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience. -- Krishna Das
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note. -- Gustav Mahler
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic. -- Heather Brewer
I make hats. I'm on a hat frenzy. I'm on my eighth and I love it. -- Amanda Seyfried
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. -- Lena Dunham
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' -- Nate Silver
I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade. -- Tia Carrere
We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did. -- Emma Chase
I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires. -- Holly Black
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered. -- Albert Einstein
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since. -- Rich Sommer
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. -- Scott Lynch
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. -- Albert Einstein
We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension. -- William Gerhardie
The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy. -- Brad Ausmus
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. -- Charles Frazier
I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it. -- Ross Mathews
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day -- Thornton Wilder
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. -- Brendan Gill
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. -- Thornton Wilder
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster. -- Salman Rushdie
And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4. -- Jerry Coleman
Give me your vote, Hillary Clinton says, on November eighth. And then she'll say, so long, see you in four years. That's what it is. -- Donald Trump
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope. -- Jennifer Donnelly
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain. -- Olivia Wilde
I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider. -- David Ulevitch
I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had. -- Bellamy Young
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies. -- Kate Christensen
I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end." -- Cillian Murphy
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture. -- Alan Huffman
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year. -- Bill Vaughan
The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world. -- Anibal Cavaco Silva
Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY. -- Brad Meltzer
our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry. -- Merrill Markoe
When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education. -- Suzy Amis
Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor. -- Aleksandr Karelin
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At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously. -- Chelsea Clinton
No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book. -- J. K. Rowling
If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai. -- Charles Nelson Reilly
The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you. -- Herbert Hoover
When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners. -- Barry Eisler
... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day. -- George W. Bush
I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions. -- Matt McGorry
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners. -- Barry Eisler
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought -- Derek Landy
One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. -- Edwin Lefevre
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb. -- Patrick Kavanagh

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