Twenties Quotes - Page 26

• You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Real, Work, Mean

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• It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades...

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Order, Important, Shade

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 240), 1972.

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• The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

  Chuck Hagel

  Alliances, Definitions, Firsts

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• I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, People, Asking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Honesty, Thinking, Years

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

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• The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

  Georg Brandes

  Leadership, Pace, Crowds

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• But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

  Rick Moody

  Party, Paris, Important

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• We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.

  Alex Jones

  New York, Years, Organization

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• Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

  Bill Wyman

  Advertising, Thirty, Exposure

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• In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.

  Evelyn Lau

  Book, Writing, People

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• Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

  Ellen Meloy

  Alaska, Squares, America

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• People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

  Rita Moreno

  Attitude, Numbers, People

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• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

  Robert Genn

  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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• I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

  Arshile Gorky

  Mind, Finishing, Fifteen

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

  Joseph Joffre

  War, Allies, Minutes

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• According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
  live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
  in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
  Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Years, Passing Away

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• One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

  John James Audubon

  Beautiful, One Day, Dolphins

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

  Mark Morris

  Long, People, Working Together

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• Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Past, People

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• Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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• Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Stupid, Drinking

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• It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Kids, Mad

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