Quotes with 17-year-olds

Quotes 361 till 380 of 392.

  • Billy Casper When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Bob Geldof When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Brett Ratner When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • William Goldman Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
    Billy Koch
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Plato You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bobby Jindal You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messed up. This life becomes a part of them. It's not real, but some guys who are still in the business think it is.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Adolph Green You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Burgess Owens You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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