Thirty Quotes - Page 24

• I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

  Gelett Burgess

  Obesity, Fats

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• Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Knowledge, Men, Identity

  Commencement Speech by Anna Quindlen, www.mtholyoke.edu. 1999.

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• A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

  Marcia Angell

  Eight, Drug, Negative

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, College

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

  Matt Cutts

  Motivation, Inspiration, Add

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• Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Motivation, Regret, Inspiration

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• The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

  David Amram

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Egalitarianism

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• I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

  Beatrice Wood

  Girlfriend, Husband, Men

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• My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

  Patrick Modiano

  Years, Differences, Wife

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• Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

  Daniel Suarez

  World, Hell, Proof

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• Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet.

  Daniel Amen

  Powerful, Healing, Cells

  Daniel G. Amen (2012). “Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to look, feel and think younger every day”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

  Julie Powell

  Hate, Naps, Years

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• I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black
  teenager.

  Sarah

  Funny, Teenager, Kids

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• Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to
  come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart,
  stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving
  your relationship.

  William J Doherty

  Couple, Book, Heart

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• I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

  Ree Drummond

  Mother, Children, Golf

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• A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Vocabulary, Mind

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• The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year.
  There´s no sign of growth.
  Not even a hint.
  The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year.
  And then the third year.
  The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year,
  but nothing shows. No growth. No anything.
  For eight years it can continue. Eight years!
  Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

  Zig Ziglar

  Eight, Years, Feet

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• In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

  Michael K. Simpson

  President, Events, Flags

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• There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Waiting, Hamburgers, Lines

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Long, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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• A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Awful

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3507, GENERAL PRESS

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• I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

  Thayer David

  Thinking, Twenties

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

  John C. Malone

  Money, Dollars, Three

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