Quotes with thirty-odd

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  • Georges Clemenceau Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Brontë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Brooke Shields I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Camille Desmoulins I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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  • Alexander Dubcek I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Lord George Byron I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Alistair Maclean I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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  • Bertrand Russell I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Epictetus If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bryan Robson In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Camillo di Cavour In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
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  • Ben Hecht In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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