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The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
John Millington Synge

Death, Woman, Whole

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith

Good, Job, Fact

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
Jean Reno

Love, Old, Advantage

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
Jay Chiat

Future, Mean, Everyone

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
David Steinberg

Working, Sometimes, Week

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
Queen Rania of Jordan

Life, Mother, Husband

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman

Age, Crazy, Night

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.
Robert C. Solomon

Real, Percent, Dollar

In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Single, Him, Two

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
John Corigliano

Beginning, Percent, Somewhere

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.
Ray Harryhausen

Everything, Find, Soul

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
Nathaniel Smith

Great, Fear, Reason

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
John Walsh

Life, Sadness, Children

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
William Wyler

Great, Nothing, Else

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
Louis A. Johnson

Problems, President, Authority

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
Billy Barty

Dreams, History, Else

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
Fatty Arbuckle

Hundred, Pound, Weigh

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