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When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

~Geoffrey Canada

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It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.

~George Crook

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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.

~George H. W. Bush

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So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.

~George Lopez

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I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Adrenaline Because Campaign Day Each Each Day Eight Ends Five Four Getting Hours Lived More Screaming Shots Sleep Slept Then Thousands Three Tired Two Years You You Can Do It

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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

~George Orwell

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I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

~George Packer

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My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

~George Takei

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In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country was eager to do that. The Republicans had, in the view of many of us, pretty much disgraced themselves at home and abroad for eight years.

~George Will

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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Dad Eight Going Journalist Knew Newspaper Old Printing Rolling Saw Sydney Where Worked Years

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