Quotes with twenty-somethings

Quotes 21 till 40 of 112.

  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Lou Holtz Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Betty Buckley For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Folds Good morning, son
    In twenty years from now
    Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
    And I can tell you 'bout today
    And how I picked you up and everything changed.
    Lyrics Still Fighting It, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Eddie Murphy I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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