Twenties Quotes - Page 16

• Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?

  Mao Zedong

  Stars, Wall, Men

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Men, Errors

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• Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

  Brad Gilbert

  Years, Guy, Lockers

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• Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mirrors, Differences

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• But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Communication, Technology

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• I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

  Mike Myers

  Book, Thinking, Eight

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• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Years, Becoming

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Fun, Thinking, Jumping

  Camilla Lackberg (2012). “Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 1-3: The Ice Princess, The Preacher, The Stonecutter”, p.117, HarperCollins UK

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• The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Reality

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Inquiring, Students

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Believe, Teaching, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

  Terry Brooks

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Years, Careers

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  Xavier Becerra

  Aggravation, Deterioration, Disease

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• I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Twenty Somethings, Television

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• The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

  Mary Blakely

  Years, Next, Newborn

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, League

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• I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

  Cole Younger

  Selflessness, Eleven, Wounded

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• If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

  Joe Flanigan

  Ideas, Feet, Guy

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• Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Medicine, Firsts, Selflessness

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• Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

  Adam Rich

  Thinking, Rocks, Names

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• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Character, Play, Numbers

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

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• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Missing, Criticism

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