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“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.”

World Made Said Country Bigs Would Be Able Courses Left Wish Decision Cry Directors Ten Embrace University East Being The Best Coast Athletic Prestige Iowa East Coast Rutgers

Author:C. Vivian Stringer

“I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.”

Years Made Stills Ten Cream Crops Cds Sample Cream Of The Crop

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.”

World Years Art Made Ten Art Is Recognition Art World

Author:Jeff Koons

“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.”

Littles Made Real Three Animal Alive Progress Mystery Ten Bird Hundred Structure Plant Fishes Smallest Seventies Insects Ninety Eighty Dots Marvellous

Author:Hokusai

“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.”

Ifs World Want Wells Made I Can Book Wanted Hate Turns Next Chance Perfect Objects Color Ten Pages Ideals I Hate Made It Next Time Discouraging Another Chance Accommodations

Author:Joan Didion

“In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.”

World Years Made President Millions Thousand Ten Hundred Labor Unions Raised Eight Made It Membership Labor Union

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.”

Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

“Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away.”

Men Made Matter Dream Courses Forever He Man Tomorrow Ten Wake Up Twenties Foundation Fats This Life Pounds Frightened Prerequisites Visibility Adornment

Book:Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.”

Ifs Years Made Age Found Views Wife Progress Youth Ten Misery Drinking Old Age Miserable Tea Beer Makers Laziness Fifteen Destroyers Fifteen Years Tea Drinking

Author:William Cobbett

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”

Thinking Men Humans Made Sometimes Facts Race Mistake Ten Members Eight Human Race Pigs Tails Made A Mistake Crooked Hog Swine

Book:The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.”

Ifs Made Said Two Three Chance Sea Example Ten Rivers Twenties Foundation Assuming Finals Caught Fishes Boat Thirty Lakes Fishing Forty Arrangements

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.”

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime.”

Men Made Today Earth Lying Fighting Ten Picks Built Woods Graves Prime Covered Thick Spades Bouquets Rouge

Book:Joyce Kilmer

Source: Joyce Kilmer

“History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.”

People Thinking Men Made History Hero Ten Mass Ignorant One Man Historian Earthquakes Hero Worship

Book:The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts

Source: The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts

“Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.”

People Giving Years Littles Art Made Book Feelings Hands Able Love Is Objects Mines Particular Ten Give Me Cards Crafts

Author:Sarah Kay

“I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.”

Way Should Made Sometimes Enough Wanted Dies Passion Speak Wish Enjoy Behinds Saws Ten Beats Dancing Dance Notion Partners Nine Made It Necks Alas Lighters Delirious

Author:Ethel Smyth

“The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.”

May Long Made Minutes Ten Understood Complicated Ems Commandments Ten Commandments

Book:The Will Rogers book

Source: The Will Rogers book

“A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.”

Needs Writing Made Book Film Song Three Five Directors Ten Singers Quitting Great Book

Author:Alber Elbaz

“The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.”

Looks Made Funny Expression Ten Humorous Distance Miles Commanders

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.”

Feels Writing Years Made Sometimes Character Body Young Fun Boys Ten Bones Hungry Get Up Fifty Pounds Hopeless Weary

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“In the U.S., some extraordinary movies have been made on politics and social issues. We learned lots of things from American cinema. But in the last ten or fifteen years, this has changed drastically. Today, that kind of movie is much easier to make in Europe.”

Years Kind Has Beens Made Today Lasts Social Issues Changed Easier Ten Europe Extraordinary Cinema Fifteen Social Issues Fifteen Years

Author:Costa-Gavras

“I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Made Enough Wanted Felt Ten Twenties Originals Lists Remembered Recalls Highlights Total Recall

Author:Len Wiseman

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”

Years May Persons Made Three Thousand Ten Six Hundred Towns Enjoyment Contribution Fifty Fund Resolve New Year Small Town Happy New Year Funny Happy New Year

Author:Sydney Smith

“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.”

Thinking Should Years Made Lasts Challenges Decision Results Policy Inspire Thousand Ten Built Proportion Executives Provoking Right Decision Morris

Author:William Morris

“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.”

Giving Should Years May Made Book Would Be Reading Loses Ten Made It Shelves Extensions

Author:Pam Brown

“If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.”

“Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.”

People Thinking Made Dies Ten Percent Eighty

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!”

Years Made Country Today Cities Modern Ten Years Ago Flats Mud Swamps Never Fear Metropolis

Author:Mr. Lee

“I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid...Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours...Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else.”

Looks Kind Made Hours Cities Ready Hair Battle Bed Ten Losing Garden Endure Lovely Made It Paris Hotel Sunlight Roof Inclination Eleven Berlin Enchanting Madrid Penthouses

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Art Made Real Shows Guy Saws Media New York Painting Ten Meat Investors Cop Impressed Estates Chasing Graffiti Packing Sold Out

Author:Alec Monopoly

“In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.”

Made Earth Choices Sides Ten Terror Our Time Kitchen Dishes Entitled Potatoes Salad Time On Earth Potato Salad Our Time On Earth Side Dishes

Book:Mere Anarchy

Source: Mere Anarchy

“I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.”

Thinking Made Ends Character Special Color Ten Originals Lists Copies Presenting Something Special Bryan

Author:Johnny Simmons

“Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?”

“Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.”

Art Made Christian Culture Higher Ten Criticism Hollywood Commandments Epic Clash Pagan Ten Commandments Hollywood Movies Infatuated Ideologues Travesty Best American Ben Hur

Author:Camille Paglia

“Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.”

People Knows World Feels Firsts Made Hard Felt Millions Records Feet Rocks Talent Dog Ten Mouths Corners Feel Good Made It Tunes Tall Horizon Rock And Roll Hounds Hound Dogs

Author:Stephen King

“President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.”

“I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.”

Made Different Five Discipline Ten Flip Flopping

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.”

People Years Children Made Said I Can Remember Three Four Minutes Goes On Reader Ten Conversation Pages Years Ago Memoir Dialogue Ethical Sixty Small Child Pact

Author:Paul Auster

“I made my first website when I was ten. I flirted using instant messages all throughout high school. I like the Internet. I like cuddling. I like my cell phone. I like awkward eye contact with strangers. I like hearing people's voices. I like parties. I like Craigslist. These things don't seem technologically exclusive to me.”

“In ten years, or certainly before then, I'd like to not only be continuously busy as an actor playing tormented, playful characters in film and television but also have gotten a few of my own films made.”

Years Made Character Film Actors My Own Television Ten Busy Film And Television

Author:Kyle Cassie

“The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I did and thought she was great in. She was just so charming and beautiful. But I felt she could probably look plain if we tried. And when I subsequently met with her, I was so charmed by her vulnerability and sweetness. Those were two qualities that were the most important for that character.”

Ifs Looks Made Two Important Character Beautiful Felt Quality Watches Mets Directors Ten Vulnerability Charming Sweetness Casting Charmed Starters Casting Directors

Author:Nicole Holofcener

“I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.”

Firsts Believe Has Beens Made Ends Kids Lasts Film Minutes Ten Cameras Forgotten

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.”

Knows World Has Beens Made Done Age Together Opportunity Class Groups Students Ten Pressure Great Things Exile Monk Curriculum Outside World Tibetan Lama Tibet New Opportunity Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.”

“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.”

People Men World Years Made Ends Together Film Interesting He Man Ten Tone Encounters End Of The World Volcanoes

Author:Werner Herzog

“This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.”

Knows World Years Mean Made Country Century Ten Standards Miracle Seven Average Improvement Ingredients 20th Century Standards Of Living Living Better

Author:Warren Buffett

“[Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten and make it forty? We're still far from the senseless figures spread around by Mujib [Rahman] and Indra Gandhi.”

Knows Made Stills Cases Four Figures Ten Spread Appeals Forty

Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.”

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