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“T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.”

Today Fashion Ten Dollars Shirts Expensive T Shirt Fashion Today

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?”

Ifs Knows Situation Minutes Ten Flats Call Me Tire Mike Jersey

Author:Queen Latifah

“It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.”

People Knows Years Stills Different Today Artist Records Keys Ten Years Ago Online Coming Out Singles New Artists

Author:Avril Lavigne

“In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.”

Persons Ten Tongue Nine Disappointed Slander

Author:George Bancroft

“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

“I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.”

Made I Can Matter Bigs Watches Happened Minutes Television Internet Ten Cnn Hong Kong Big Families

Author:Jet Li

“When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.”

Whole Parent Fame Ten Thrown Traps

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.”

Ifs Want Problem Bigs Mother Asks Answers Drug Ten Smart Daughter Fats Pounds

Author:Courtney Love

“We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”

People Suffering Emotion Worry Ten Anxiety Nine Breaking Down Breaking Promises Overwork

Book:The Pleasures of the Life

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.”

People Mean Funny Used Talking Week Bed Ten Smoke Smoking Marijuana Cigarette

Author:Bill Maher

“If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.”

Ifs Men Years Looks Long War Three Ten Long Time Britain Long Time Ago Afghan

Author:John Major

“Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.”

Years Children Has Beens Kids Political Lessons Ten Soil Feds Progressive Antidote Bin Laden Political Correctness Spoons Correctness Osama Bin Laden Henchmen

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.”

People Knows Years Firsts Five Television Cost Ten Scripts Reactions Budgets Novelists 80s Terrific

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”

Years Courses Comedy Four Fame Ten Seeking Comic Heroic Four Years Originality Stand Up Comedy Refining

Author:Steve Martin

“Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.”

Enough Earth Heaven Ten Territory Palestinian Billionaire Pals

Author:Roseanne Barr

“The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!”

Ends Moments Happened Fame Ten Seasons Addiction Nine Instantaneous

Author:Roseanne Barr

“To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.”

Writing Mind Littles Minutes Discipline Ten Mark Undisciplined

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.”

Years Firsts Next Victory Ten Consequence Foundation Decades Firm Firm Foundation

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.”

Ten Waste Percent Good Times Ninety Whiskey Whisky Drinking Whiskey Whiskey And Love

Author:Tug McGraw

“If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Generations Information Ten Hiding Our Future Commandments Future Generation Ten Commandments Hiding Things

Author:John Mellencamp

“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”

War Literature Hero Ten Soldier Heroism

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”

Facts Humor Funny Freedom Democracy Ten Laughter Humorous Pleasant Commandments Ten Commandments Government Programs

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.”

Art Literature Ten Errors Nine Exposed

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”

Humor Funny Time Powerful Ten Humorous Witty Nine Cynicism Altruism Cynic

Author:H. L. Mencken

“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”

Years Age Literature Ten Aging Old Age Birthday Birthdays And Aging Funny Old Age Birthday Inspirational Birthday Witty Birthday Funny Old Birthday

Author:Bernard Baruch

“The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.”

People World Opportunity Class Millions Economy Five Growing Middle Ten Seven Phones Population Britain Middle Class Mobile Nigeria Mobile Phones Growing Economy

Author:David Miliband

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

Years Hands Pieces Feet Ten Iron Strings Funny Leadership

Author:Spike Milligan

“The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.”

Ten Connections Grieving Poetic Strongest Nerves

Author:Mike Mills

“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.”

Men Winning Loses Ten Odds We Will Win

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!”

People Believe Persons Ten Nine Disagree

Author:Colin Mochrie

“The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.”

Stills States Form United Rooms United States Economy Ten Areas England France Borders Lakes Spares Coast Pacific Great Lakes

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.”

Knows Years Voice Ten Newspapers Alternatives Michigan Edited

Author:Michael Moore

“If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.”

Ifs Years School Law Three Gone Written Ten Saving Hills Exception Three Years Commandments Moses Harvard Law School Ten Commandments Clauses Harvard Law School

Author:Charles Morgan

“I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.”

Ifs Believe Mean Children I Believe Crime Taught Ten Engagement Commandments Ten Commandments

Author:Gary Bauer

“Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.”

Years Wells Moments Ten Decided Trade Entertainment Breakthrough Hustle

Author:Jason Mraz

“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”

Way Use Science Religion Universe Numbers Ten Rounds Creator Math Likes Mysterious Counting Mysterious Ways Dilbert Mysterious Universe

Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.”

I Can Done Literature Gone Air Minutes Tomorrow Ten Concerned Yesterday Fifteen Reporters Tangible Agitate

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.”

Ifs Kind Two Hours Minutes Dad Ten My Dad Brooks

Author:Mike Myers

“But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.”

Knows Stills States Sex Crime Ten Argument Adultery Outlaw

Author:Liam Neeson

“The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.”

People Years Persons Amount Ten Average Average Person

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.”

Knows Way Kind Littles Play Bits Animal Imagine Feet Bears Ten Little Bit Standing Fascinating Tall Honey Eleven Standing Alone Grizzlies Grizzly Bears

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

Writing Book Whole Reading Crazy Ten Ambition Sentences Thrive My Ambition Brevity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.”

Firsts Doe Book Form Masters Ten Ambition Eternity Sentences Aphorism My Ambition

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.”

Way Film Loses Answers Minutes Television Ten Phones Linear

Author:Christopher Nolan

“All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.”

People Ten Interviews

Author:Graham Norton

“Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.”

Looks Products Ten Ads

Author:Martha Beck

“Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.”

Death Dies Honor Thousand Ten Wounds Honour Honorable Honored

Author:Joseph Addison

“When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.”

Next Games Winning Race Hair Ten Thirds Rounds Olympic Games

Author:Apolo Ohno

“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”

Men Years Funny Mistake Ten Errors My Mistakes Blunders Correcting

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer