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“The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last eight years, China multiplied by seven its economic presence and penetration in the Middle East. And if this happens on economic terms and there is a shift towards the East, the relationship between these countries and Israel is completely different from the United States. And it means that the challenges are going to be different, because China is not supporting Israel the way the U.S. are supporting Israel.”

“We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.”

“I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.”

“Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. I also get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.”

“What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.”

Thinking Important Hours Our Lives Alive Television Periods Sitting Appreciate Eight Beach

Author:Victor Kiam

“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.”

People Seems Might Sides Hours Rooms Talking Computer Seven Boxes Communicate Eight Staring Ironic Living Room Not Talking Saying Nothing Talking Back

Author:Howard Rheingold

“We've had eight years of passivity with Barack Obama where whatever anybody around the world wanted to do to America, we just huffed and puffed and did nothing. And with Donald Trump, you want to do something to America, there's gonna be a price. And if you offend our sensibilities - we're not gonna put up with it. And he says and does what he does.”

Ifs World Want Years Doe Wanted America Trump Eight Around The World Barack Sensibility Passivity

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.”

Years Whole Next Sports Team Months Eight Next Year Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.”

Hours Week Months Six Yeah Seven Eight Intense Thick Golfing Trainers Handicaps Seven Days Seven Months Thick Of It

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.”

Years Felt Childhood Eight Endless

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.”

Running Lying Hours Six Weight Eight Miles Plus Lunch Aerobics

Author:Hugh Laurie

“We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!”

Country Humor Funny Walking Eight Bullets Lennon

Author:Denis Leary

“Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.”

People Ifs Firsts Mean Facts Age Five Saws First Time Eight Fortunate Thirty Birthday Elderly 60th Birthday Expectancy Uganda Life Expectancy Thirty Eight

Author:Annie Lennox

“I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.”

Years Eight Overeating

Author:Demi Lovato

“My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.”

Way Whole House Numbers Conversation Tables Eight Seats Guests Maximum Small Numbers Good Conversation

Author:Paul Lynde

“I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.”

Thinking Writing Stills Facts Used Fighting Hours Fire Eight Coming Back Fireman Drawbacks

Author:David Mamet

“I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.”

Years Two Ends Three Can Do Hours Sleep Five Four Shots Tired Eight Campaigns Each Day Three Years You Can Do It Adrenaline

Author:George McGovern

“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”

Men Long Matter Wisdom Women Wise Average Eight Forty Forty Eight

Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.”

Play Higher Seven Eight Score Online Tiles Scrabble

Author:Moby

“After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.”

Years Mind Young Next Careers Ready Eight Criminals Phases Restless Criminal Mind

Author:Shemar Moore

“I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.”

Children Citizens Husband Eight My Husband Passports

Author:Emily Mortimer

“There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'”

Humans Enough Earth Song Causes Sides Chance Party Race Civilization Twenties Eight Nine Release Human Race March Seventies Extinction Refrain Bright Side Asteroids

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.”

Five Months Argument Bases Eight Release Hospitals Attempting Jersey New Jersey Involuntary

Author:John Forbes Nash

“I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.”

Problem Actors Behinds Balls Eight Rejection Rejected Auditions Eight Ball

Author:Robert De Niro

“While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.”

Years Half Series Eight Texas Episodes Screenplays Rangers Walkers Half A Year

Author:Chuck Norris

“Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.”

Way Writing Years Long Sometimes Long Time Years Ago Eight Appropriate Things In Life

Author:Beck

“I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!”

Mind Mean Kids Hours Six Seven Eight Uncles

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.”

Book Months Eight Kindles

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.”

Years Enough Plant Lifetime Eight Site Electricity Coal Facility Power Plants Solar Panels

Author:Barack Obama

“Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.”

Way Firsts Moving Song Numbers Dancing Eight Hearing Bars Dance Love

Author:Yoko Ono

“If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.”

Ifs Needs Jobs Focus Security Months Balance Unions Eight Credit Cards Saving Worried Fund Expenses Emergencies Adequate Credit Card Saving Money Credit Unions

Author:Suze Orman

“Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.”

Months Cost Accounts Unions Eight Credit Priorities Credit Unions

Author:Suze Orman

“I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.”

People Home Pay Months Balance Eight Credit Saved Cards Saving Fund Frustrated Emergencies Payment Savings Credit Card

Author:Suze Orman

“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”

Feelings Seems Age Literature Trust Adults Seven Eight Birthday True Feelings

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“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.”

“I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .”

Giving Years Hands Government Hours Wealth Poor Pay Rich Fairs Workers Eight Sickness Wages Argentina Rich Family

Author:Evita Peron

“I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Mind Heart Decision Mines My Heart Eight Accomplish Compare Going Out Medal

Author:Michael Phelps

“I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.”

Kind Player Months Demand Scripts Eight Principal

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.”

Years Has Beens Next House Taught Industry Involved Eight Nuclear Covered Continents Avenues Nuclear Bomb Every Avenue

Author:Terry Pratchett

“When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.”

Wanted Found President Eight Smack

Author:Prince

“I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.”

Feels Writing Wells Today Used Hours Labor Cooking Clean Eight Kitchen Relax Vacation Crash Fatigue Days Off Chatting

Author:Rachael Ray

“For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!”

Ifs Knows Giving Years Doe President Sleep Special Eight Access Former First Lady

Author:Nancy Reagan

“I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.”

Years Achieve Eight Liverpool

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.”

Way Sometimes Helping Problem School Fall Three Class Spring High School Seasons Eight Miles Weather Clock Farms Harvest Horseback Bad Weather

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.”

Ifs Kind I Can Ends Feelings Used Games Felt Hours Too Much Waste Eight Video Guilty The End Of The Day Satisfying Wasting Time Colossal Playing Video Games

Author:John C. Reilly

“The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.”

Firsts Has Beens Shows Week Rocks New York First Time Clubs Eight Agendas Punk 80s Punk Rock

Author:Alan Rickman

“I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.”

Long Night Hours Eight Long Ago Night Time

Author:Tim Robbins

“I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”

Years Stills Real Funny Stars Wife Humorous Years Ago Twenties Witty Eight Movie Movie Star Keeping It Real

Author:Will Rogers

“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”

Towns Eight Newspapers

Author:Will Rogers

“I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”

Trying Months Decided Luck Eight Chicago Firefighter Fireman

Author:Carl Sandburg

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