Fifteen Quotes - Page 12

• Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Care, Lasts, Minutes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jackie Chan

  Giving Up, Years, Giving

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

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• I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.

  River Phoenix

  Song, Kids, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Years, Profound

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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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• I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

  Douglas Wilson

  Distance, Believe, Hiking

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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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• If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.

  Stevie Nicks

  Morning, Passion, Age

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• Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

  Adolf Hitler

  Laughter, Joy, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams. Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass, and most importantly, they’ll turn you on.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Kids, Destiny

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• In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders

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• Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party

  Al Gore

  Believe, Future, Party

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, What Matters, Data

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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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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Long, Childhood, Portraits

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• I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

  Thom Yorke

  Hands, Laughing, Use

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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 say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Years, Play

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• The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Taken, Sleep

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• I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

  Sharni Vinson

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

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• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

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• Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Differences, 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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