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Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you’re not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you’re drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.

No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep – eight hours a day!

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I’m free, and yet I can’t let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron’s magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don’t just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you…The world belongs to you. China’s future belongs to you.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.

I love you is eight letters…then again, so is bullshit.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

Don’t bring your sand toys to the park. That’s another bad move. Because I go to the park, and I’m on the Vicodin and a little weed too – let’s face it – and I go in there, and my wife’s like, ‘Bring the sand toys! Bring the sand toys!’ And I know what happens every single time: I become sand toy repo man from the eight little kids that run off in nine different directions with my sand toys.

One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of niceness: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: What would Reagan do? People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

I think, while it is true that the Hillary Clinton and I voted differently on the war in Iraq, what is important is that we learn the lesson of the war in Iraq. And that lesson is intrinsic to my foreign policy if elected president, is the United States cannot do it alone. We cannot be the policeman of the world. We are now spending more I believe than the next eight countries on defense. We have got to work in strong coalition with the major powers of the world and with those Muslim countries that are prepared to stand up and take on terrorism.

I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn’t become any more until I saw the baby… But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn’t think about my own pain… We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.

High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

It’s the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It’s easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

If you’re writing, you’re a writer. If you’re talking about it or thinking about it, I’m not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we’ve been a country of progression.

When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into – not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing – braiding into a scar for eight long years.

I’d like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

The family story tells, and it was told true,of my great-grandfather who begat eightgenius children and bought twelve almost newgrand pianos. He left a considerable estatewhen he died.

The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size – now I’m no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.

Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it’s not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There’s a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

I have read – nay, I have bought! – Carlyle’s ‘Latter Day Pamphlets,’ and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless….I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don’t want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That’s just not me, that’s not how my creativity flows.