Twenty Quotes
1709 Twenty quotes by 1291 unique authors
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so…
— Lester Bangs
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
— Alice James
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I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many…
— Olga Korbut
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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It…
— Martha Gellhorn
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.…
— Jacques Attali
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Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out…
— Howard Gardner
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I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
— Sydney Pollack
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I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.
— Mark Batterson
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I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and…
— Stephen Chbosky
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When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though…
— Edward Carpenter
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I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at…
— Peter Cushing
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These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and…
— Vivian Campbell
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Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't…
— Steve Daines
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I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.
— Just Fontaine
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There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
— R. Lee Ermey
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If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all…
— William O. Douglas
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Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find…
— Les Standiford
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Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.
— Old Dirty Bastard
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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home,…
— James Taylor
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I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came…
— Ray Dalio
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I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone…
— Carrie Ann Inaba
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I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.
— Joe Mantegna
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Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a…
— Kate Mulgrew
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