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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. — Paul Desmond
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was… — Horace Silver
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to… — Miles Davis
Bebop has set music back twenty years. — Tommy Dorsey
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. — William Shakespeare
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and… — T. Colin Campbell
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly… — Philip Gibbs
The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't… — Matthew West
Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood… — L. Ron Hubbard
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties… — Frederick Rolfe
For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It… — Hans Blix
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. — Monica Baldwin
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George… — Andrew Roberts
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. — Roger Ascham
As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can… — Jacque Fresco
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to… — David Markson
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed… — Unknown Author
I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect… — Andrew Jackson
Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business… — Charlie Munger
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty… — Marguerite Yourcenar
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot… — Allen Tate
I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked… — Jarvis Cocker
Almost any age is better than twenty-two. — David Rakoff
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness… — Vincent Bugliosi

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