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I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.
A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.
My dad had a great career and if I could win a tenth of what he did in football, I'd be happy.
I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.
I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.
I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.
Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.
That's about the 1,000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.
Nobody held a gun to my head and forced me to write recaps about the tenth season of 'American Idol.' Although I feel like someone must have and I just forgot about it.
If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.
Even after nine flops, an actor will get his tenth film. But, if a director gives a flop after nine hits, he will not get another film. That is the way the industry functions.
It is certainly accurate, as it has often been said and as his letters reveal, that Grandpa supplied his tenth college reunion with alcohol in 1922 at the height of Prohibition.
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
I mean any fool can hurl themselves at a climb that is beyond their abilities to safely negotiate. You may get away with such an approach nine times, but the tenth time you don't come back.
In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.
I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play 'Oklahoma!' and I didn't make it into a singing and dancing group in high school for the same reason - too fat.
If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment.
Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.' You don't get to do that on television.
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.