"Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later."
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"The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life."
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"A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more."
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"A good conscience is eight parts of courage."
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"Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role."
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"A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations."
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"The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les."
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"I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'"
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"For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind."
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"I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in."
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"Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II."
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"There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt."
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"The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day."
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"Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day."
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"I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now."
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"Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing."
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"A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands."
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"There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own."
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"I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week."
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"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."
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