Fifteen Quotes - Page 25

• Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed.

  Norm MacDonald

  Dirty, Bored, Twenties

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• Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

  Joe Pass

  Years, Play, Drug

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• I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.

  Joe Pass

  Morning, Home, School

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• Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open." After 40 plus confirmations over a two-week period - yes, more than 40 - I became thoroughly convinced this verse was both a promise and a weapon for me. I have since used the verse hundreds of times throughout America - in all 50 states and in Washington DC - to open and close spiritual doors for the Lord.

  Dutch Sheets

  Spiritual, Keys, Doors

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• I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.

  Bert Jansch

  Girl, Strong, Hero

  Interview with Robin Cook, www.furious.com. December 2006.

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• I really enjoy touring period! I had another band called Killing Machine, we went out on tour which was only fifteen shows & we went out in a really old motor home. That had to be the most fun. I didn't have to do radio at nine in the morning everyday. It was me & a bunch of friends. The singer was my tattoo artist. My girlfriend would fly in & we would sleep in a hammock above the bed the band were sleeping in [laughs]. I like that stuff that's really fun, I like the camping experience.

  Tracii Guns

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Morning

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• I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes

  Charles McPherson

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.

  Lene Marlin

  Dream, Song, Couple

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• I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

  Ian Bremmer

  Girl, College, Age

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• Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

  Ian Bremmer

  College, Challenges, Fit

  Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

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• My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Moving, Home

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

  Maurice Levy

  Population, Looks, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Meaningful, Eight, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, Moving, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

  Katy Perry

  Twenties, Three, Changed

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• It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the United States. Twenty-five percent of the inhabitants of New York are Jews. During the Great War we bought off this huge American Jewish public by the promise of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, held by Ludendorff to be the master stroke of Allied propaganda as it enabled us not only to appeal to Jews in America but to Jews in Germany as well.

  Sidney Robertson Cowell

  New York, War, Home

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• Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

  Harold Robbins

  Sex, Age, Trouble

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• We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

  Eric Martinot

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

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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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• I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

  Amy Poehler

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

  James Randi

  Age, Microwaves, Ovens

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• Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.

  Paul Blobel

  Men, Order, Squad

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 157, 1961.

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• A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.

  Buwei Yang Chao

  Dark, Clothes, Black

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• The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

  Olivia Robertson

  Different, Answers, Knows

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