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There's the book that says that ten-thousand hours is what you need to be great at any field, whether it's music, sports, science, or whatever--it all comes from hard work.
Mike Ragogna: Universal Pulses & Floating Cities: Chatting with 311's Nick Hexum and Thomas Dolby Mike Ragogna 2011
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There's the book that says that ten-thousand hours is what you need to be great at any field, whether it's music, sports, science, or whatever--it all comes from hard work.
Mike Ragogna: Universal Pulses & Floating Cities: Chatting with 311's Nick Hexum and Thomas Dolby Mike Ragogna 2011
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I did this one other time for a children's cultural center, which was a much smaller event than what we're doing now, and it brought in some really nice money -- close to ten-thousand dollars.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte Mike Ragogna 2010
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I did this one other time for a children's cultural center, which was a much smaller event than what we're doing now, and it brought in some really nice money -- close to ten-thousand dollars.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic: Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte Mike Ragogna 2010
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This year's picnic in America's last-self-contained Chinatown raised over ten-thousand dollars for the cause of democracy in China.
Imitation of Life Marko Fong 2011
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They kept it on anyway, and it was still horribly annoying, like a ten-thousand ton alarm clock.
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In the meantime, is it unreasonable for a woman who spends a heck of a lot of time in airplanes to ask her fellow travelers, please, Please, PLEASE, cool it with the electronics below ten-thousand feet?
Christine Negroni: Handhelds on Planes A Bigger Problem Then You Think Christine Negroni 2011
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Tell the white man there's pearl shell in some lagoon infested by ten-thousand howling cannibals, and he'll head there all by his lonely, with half a dozen kanaka divers and a tin alarm clock for chronometer, all packed like sardines on a commodious, five-ton ketch.
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In the meantime, is it unreasonable for a woman who spends a heck of a lot of time in airplanes to ask her fellow travelers, please, Please, PLEASE, cool it with the electronics below ten-thousand feet?
Christine Negroni: Handhelds on Planes A Bigger Problem Then You Think Christine Negroni 2011
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I did this one other time for a children's cultural center, which was a much smaller event than what we're doing now, and it brought in some really nice money -- close to ten-thousand dollars.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic: Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte Mike Ragogna 2010
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