Fifteen Years Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

  Harry Blackstone, Jr.

  Years, Practice, Discipline

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• I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander’s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight’s opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them." - Valek

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Sleep, Opportunity

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.192, Harlequin

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• The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Boys, Years

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• Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Doctors

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• When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

  Robert Redford

  Artist, Years, Stories

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• Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Order, Years

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.166, Crown

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• Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

  Ben Kingsley

  Years, Theatre, Actors

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• I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Cutting, Years

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Marijuana, Years, Effectiveness

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• I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

  Dane Cook

  Kids, Past, Years

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Technology, Years

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• The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Ignorance, Self, Order

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.275, Vintage

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• Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

  John Knowles

  Mean, Years, Important

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

  Daniel Handler

  Sarcastic, Baby, Congratulations

  "The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), October 18, 2005.

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• What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

  Umberto Eco

  Hurt, Believe, Thinking

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

  Janet Fitch

  Tired, Beer, Men

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

  Wanda Sykes

  Brother, Jobs, Nice

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• The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

  Douglas Adams

  Eye, Aunt, Years

  Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.

  Laurie R. King

  War, Book, Years

  Laurie R. King (2009). “Night Work”, p.389, Bantam

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• You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!

  Lenny Bruce

  Cute, Real, Sleep

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• Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most.

  Jane Green

  Laughter, Fun, Kids

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• I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Book, Writing

  Stephen Fry (2014). “Making History”, p.95, Soho Press

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• It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Past

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