Quotes with twenty-six

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  • Beeban Kidron If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Ann Beattie If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Brett Hull If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Brian K. Vaughan In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Diana Ross Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
    Diana Ross
    American singer, songwriter and actress (1944 - )
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  • Bob Costas It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
    Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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 accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Baldwin It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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