Twenty Quotes
1709 Twenty quotes by 1291 unique authors
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Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started…
— Gregory Hines
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If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
— Brian Clough
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The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.
— Wilford Woodruff
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That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all…
— Bill Bryson
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
— James Madison
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in,…
— Bette Midler
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She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life…
— James A. Baldwin
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times…
— Stephen King
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With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.
— Thayer David
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of…
— Michelle Alexander
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
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You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that…
— Og Mandino
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The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive…
— Greg Nickels
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