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  • One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? -- Jerry Pournelle
  • Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand. -- Neil Turok
  • It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason. -- Daren Kagasoff
  • You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month. -- Jerry Moran
  • Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy. -- Charles Hazlewood
  • Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base. -- Martin Milner
  • Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. -- Andrew Wiles
  • On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. -- Anthony Holden
  • Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice. -- Seth Shostak
  • Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people. -- Juliana Hatfield
  • There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure. -- Bill Gates
  • Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. -- Edward Zwick
  • Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here. -- Michael Mosley
  • I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? -- Kiefer Sutherland
  • Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. -- Andrew Wiles
  • I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing. -- Chris Evans
  • I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there. -- Jane Wiedlin
  • Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever. -- Christine Quinn
  • Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. -- Ian Mcewan
  • There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. -- Christian Morgenstern
  • Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years. -- Eugenie Clark
  • Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. -- Martin Cruz Smith
  • From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. -- Bill McKibben
  • After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. -- Malcolm X
  • For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson. -- Scott Adams
  • It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. -- Carol Bellamy
  • The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. -- Thomas Hardy
  • Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list. -- Joshuah Bearman
  • A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them? -- Marjorie Dannenfelser
  • Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that. -- Kimi Raikkonen
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  • ...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy. -- Christopher Moore
  • Some Westerners ["] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. -- Samuel P. Huntington
  • It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country. -- Chief Joseph
  • Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. -- Pete Seeger
  • America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people. -- Andrew Lam
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