Twenties Quotes

• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

  Bill Gates

  Littles, Days Off, Stills

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Artist, Childhood, Your Children

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• …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Thinking, Years, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.

  Kristen Bell

  Believe, Love Is, Thinking

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• I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

  Winona Ryder

  Growing Up, Teenager, Growing

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• When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

  Chaka Khan

  Horse, Riding, Cliffs

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• I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

  Tommy Rettig

  Kids, Actors, Stills

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• You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

  James Cagney

  War, Struggle, Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

  Lena Dunham

  Like You, Romantic Relationship, Feels

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  Lena Dunham

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Majority, Wanted

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• I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

  Sienna Miller

  Ifs

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• In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, Motivation, Speak English

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Heart, Want, Socialism

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• In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

  Cobie Smulders

  Thinking, Who I Am, Ideas

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• Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

  Gerry Mulligan

  Two, Three, Gone

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• Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

  Matthew McGrory

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

  Sloane Crosley

  Emotional, Paper, Thirty

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• Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Believe, Men, Cities

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Teenager, Believe

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Eight, Adults, Length

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• When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

  Sheena Easton

  Jeans, Looks, Fabulous

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

  Albert Ellis

  Happiness, Responsibility, Destiny

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• Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  Candace Bushnell

  Willing, What You Love, Who You Are

  "Candace Bushnell On Sex, Money, And Sarah Palin". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2008.

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