Quotes with twenty-first

Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 1616.

  • Bill Skarsgard When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Carice van Houten When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Bob Parsons When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Billy Joel When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Horowitz When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brenda Song When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Bob Harper When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Casper When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard him say again,
    The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.
    And I am two-and-twenty
    And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 13, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bernard Arnault When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Camilla Belle When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Hybels When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bono When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
    Source: Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Hardy When my family first found out about my part in 'EastEnders' they were happy for me and very supportive.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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