Best Twenty Years Thoughts
355 Twenty Years quotes by 305 unique authors
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Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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This book is dedicated to Sweet Loretta Modern. It's also dedicated to all the Jerichoholics who have stood behind me through all of the trials…
— Chris Jericho
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Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man…
— Andrew Breitbart
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on,…
— Louis Kronenberger
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine…
— Carol S. Dweck
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks…
— Ezra Pound
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the…
— John Cage
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If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we…
— Igor Stravinsky
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It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had…
— Jean M. Auel
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Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
— Ernst Mach
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There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened -…
— Norman MacCaig
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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But…
— Abraham Polonsky
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in…
— Johannes Stark
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of…
— Yuan T. Lee
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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last…
— Keith Devlin
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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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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 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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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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