Twenties Quotes - Page 23

• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Essentials, Looks

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Different, Problem

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• I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, Years, People

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• But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

  Ellen Page

  Support, Actors, Rebellious

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• I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.

  Mark Batterson

  Thinking, Twenty Somethings, Causes

  "Megachurch Pastor: Prayer Is My Wi-Fi". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 29, 2011.

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• I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

  Delta Burke

  Thinking, Good Enough, Enough

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• I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.

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• When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

  Edward Carpenter

  Father, Philosophy, Long

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

  Peter Cushing

  Years, Roles, Harm

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• These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.

  Vivian Campbell

  Song, Artist, Dna

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 2011.

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• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Breakup, Song, Drama

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• Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

  Barry Diller

  Done, Being Done

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• I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

  Hope Davis

  Girlfriend, Children, Years

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

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• Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

  Steve Daines

  Running, Thinking, Eight

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• I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Years, Parent, Gaps

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• In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Busy, Too Busy

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• I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

  Just Fontaine

  Team, Years, Firsts

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• I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

  Crispin Glover

  Getting Older, Shapes, Your Future

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• Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

  Johnny Galecki

  Men, Bangs, Looks

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• If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Done, Literature, Earth

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• There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Past, Years, Training

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

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• Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Exercise, Cells

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• Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.

  Les Standiford

  Running, Teacher, Character

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• Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.

  Ol' Dirty Bastard

  Years, Pussy, Politics

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