Fifteen Years Quotes

• It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

  Robert Benchley

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• Old is always fifteen years from now.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Years, Done

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2012

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• Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market.

  Jackie Chan

  Giving Up, Years, Fifteen

  "Chan putting the fun in Hollywood fighting with 'Rush Hour'" by Sherri Sylvester, www.cnn.com. September 18, 1998.

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• Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

  Kathy Bates

  Character, Past, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Teaching, Space, Years

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Mistake, Believe, Past

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

  Marvin Olasky

  Beautiful, Years, Pro Life

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• After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.'

  Richie Ashburn

  Pain, War, Player

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• She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.

  Billy Wilder

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Boz Scaggs

  Years, Trying, Rays

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• Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

  Jay-Z

  Past, Years, Stories

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• We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

  Tariq Ali

  Memories, Years, Population

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.

  Sam Hamill

  Men, Wings, Order

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in a language of their age group which I have to learn first.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Age, Groups

  Source: collider.com

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• Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].

  Julian Assange

  Years, Guarantees That, Sweden

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think somebody who's new to it would have to go back and to see what is called blues now, where it came from. If that makes sense.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Thinking, Years, Different

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

  Adrien Brody

  Dad, Years, Half

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• We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Brain, Mind

  Michio Kaku (2014). “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Marriage, Girl, Mother

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.45, Hamilton Books

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• I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Views, Years, People

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.97, Vintage

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• I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

  Jay Asher

  Husband, Years, Fifteen

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

  James B. Donovan

  Jesus, Eight, Years

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• If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts — in under fifteen years. We could further sequester all of the carbon that has been released since the beginning of the industrial age. So I find that a hopeful thing because, frankly, we just have to get out of the way. Nature will do the work for us. This planet wants to be grassland and forest. It does not want to be an agricultural mono-crop.

  Lierre Keith

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

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