Twenty Quotes
1709 Twenty quotes by 1291 unique authors
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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
— Edgar Degas
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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for…
— Alan Dershowitz
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My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the…
— Phyllis Diller
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
— Frederick Douglass
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
— Will Durant
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed…
— Will Durant
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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major…
— Freeman Dyson
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be…
— Freeman Dyson
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind…
— King Edward VIII
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep…
— Henry Ford
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Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.
— Jerry Hall
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A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
— Michael Haneke
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I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was…
— Woody Harrelson
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss…
— Robert Herrick
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I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole…
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means…
— John Hodgman
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those…
— Alice Hoffman
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
— Lou Holtz
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
— Lou Holtz
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In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
— Jane D. Hull
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I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those…
— Robert Indiana
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I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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