Best Fifteen Quotes
496 Fifteen quotes by 420 unique authors
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
— Mark Twain
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of…
— Charles Babbage
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We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and…
— Michael Jordan
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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human…
— Irving Langmuir
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
— Will Carleton
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As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it…
— Adolf Hitler
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in…
— Benjamin Franklin
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When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It…
— Cilla Black
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My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.
— Amanda Bearse
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I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So…
— Quincy Jones
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Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.
— Harry Blackstone, Jr.
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Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass…
— Maya Angelou
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I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.
— Emo Philips
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.
— Monty Roberts
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Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe this is a serious…
— Tony Blair
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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of…
— Charles Clarke
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
— Philip Roth
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
— Joe Orton
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
— Bobby Fischer
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Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm…
— Muhammad Ali
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking…
— Lucy Grealy
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