Seventeen Quotes - Page 7

• Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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• Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

  Annie Besant

  Writing, Names, Captivity

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.425, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Fashion, People, Doe

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• I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

  Kurt Cobain

  Growing Up, Kids, Rocks

  "Popular music, gender, and postmodernism" by Neil Nehring, (p. 94), 1997.

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• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  Harlan Coben

  Sleep, Responsibility, Eight

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• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  Dane Cook

  Years, Needs, Comedy

  "Interview: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Fall, Tears, Sixteen

  "Francis Ford Coppola: What I've Learned" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2009.

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• I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

  Penelope Cruz

  Yoga, Years, Discipline

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• Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Fifteen, Seven Days, Week

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

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• Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Birthday, Age, Today

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• I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

  Janis Ian

  Girl, Queens, School

  Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975

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• I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

  Robert Indiana

  Years, Numbers, House

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• Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

  Steve Irwin

  Animal, Doe, Matter

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• As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

  Mick Jagger

  Long, Care, Pages

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

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• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  Sam Kinison

  Folks

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• I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Country, Home

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• We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

  Patton Oswalt

  Mean, Reality, People

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• When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Impact, Work Out, Creative

  "Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe, Less Potter Than Ever". Interview with Logan Hill, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2013.

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Writing, Years

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• No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

  Jane Austen

  Training, Fifteen, Born

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.2, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Blue, Numbness, Years

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• For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  Ben Elton

  Past, Night, Kentucky

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• When you're seventeen or eighteen, you bomb on in pre-season immediately, try to impress. But then at the end of pre-season because you were so fast at the beginning, your times aren't getting any better and it looks like you actually aren't getting fitter.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Trying, Looks, Bombs

  "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. July 15, 2012.

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• If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

  Maude Royden

  Inspirational, Women, Want

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