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I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show. -- Roseanne Barr
A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think. -- Cathleen Schine
Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States. -- Ryan Stiles
I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it. -- Heather Matarazzo
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. -- Antoine Rivarol
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. -- William Feather
Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age. -- Joe Frazier
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. -- Jane Rule
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. -- Walter Gilbert
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting. -- Julia Roberts
I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist. -- Sonu Nigam
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. -- Horace Walpole
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. -- Richard Savage
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. -- B. C. Forbes
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. -- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. -- Groucho Marx
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. -- Billy Wilder
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary. -- Bobby Scott
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. -- T. E. Lawrence
But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia. -- Daniel Yergin
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. -- Barber Conable
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam! -- Vikram Seth
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. -- Jeremy Bentham
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. -- Horace Mann
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. -- Maggie Shipstead
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. -- James Worthy
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. -- Plato
Sometimes I feel like the tenth dentist in the 9 out of 10 dentists surveys. -- Jarod Kintz
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. -- John Lothrop Motley
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. -- William Shakespeare
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. -- Benjamin Franklin
But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth . -- Ronald Reagan
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. -- Charlie Kaufman
If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts. -- Ambrose
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. -- Will Rogers
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. -- Harlan F. Stone
The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won. -- Sam Altman
For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip. -- Haddon W. Robinson
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle -- Henry Addington
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. -- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull. -- Amit Ray
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. -- Walter Gilbert
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it. -- Zig Ziglar
It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. -- Will Rogers
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. -- Lydia M. Child
I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode. -- Bill Lawrence
My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking. -- J. D. Salinger
I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing. -- Victoria Justice
I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only! -- Ridley Scott
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times. -- Timothy Simons
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. -- Richard Whately
The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice. -- Charlene Costanzo
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar Fiedler
She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said. -- Jerry Spinelli
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. -- Mark Twain
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth... -- R.D. Blackmore
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. -- Aldo Leopold
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. -- Will Rogers
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. -- Dervla Murphy
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. -- Jake Simmons, Jr.
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window. -- Richard Dawkins
My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one. -- PMD
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list. -- Abbie Hoffman
If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world -- Justin Bieber
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. -- Thomas Sowell
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life. -- Warren Farrell
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. -- Henry David Thoreau
In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second. -- Gloria Swanson
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas. -- George Iles
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place -- Bill McKibben
If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver. -- William Cobbett
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years. -- Ramakrishna
Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are! -- Bill Maher
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Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films. -- Kristen Hager
Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings. -- Sonia Johnson
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be. -- Wayne Rogers
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history. -- Bill Bryson
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it. -- Benjamin Carson
When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes. -- Diana Gabaldon
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most. -- Jasper Fforde
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft. -- John Dufresne
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one. -- Jonathan Nolan
I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all. -- Kevin Keck
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary. -- Raphael Patai
There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more. -- Arianna Huffington
If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't. -- Thomas Perry
...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race. -- Adolf Hitler
Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time. -- David Lubar
Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family. -- George S. Clason
That's about the 1000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up. -- Sterling Marlin
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. -- William Shakespeare
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief. -- Jacqueline Carey
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it. -- C.E. Murphy
I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...' -- Rodney Dangerfield
I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing. -- Chris Rock
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal -- Mark Twain
The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different. -- David Sedaris
The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school. -- Justin Theroux
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. -- Haruki Murakami
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful. -- Bernie Sanders
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed. -- Tom Robbins
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print. -- Lewis Buzbee
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. -- Asa Hutchinson
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby. -- Mike Tyson
I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population. -- Rick Nielsen
In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few. -- Daley Thompson
Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity? -- Peer Steinbruck

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