Quotes with fifteen-year-old

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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • William Shakespeare How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Satchel Paige How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • John Milton How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Antonin Artaud However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • John Cage I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Curtis Carlson I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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