Twenties Quotes - Page 33

I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.

Andrea Gibson

Inspirational, Enough Already, Play Hard

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I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

Ed Zern

Believe, Sea, Fishing

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When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!

Ed Engle

Mean, Thinking, Years

Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.34, Stackpole Books

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So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.

Jerome K. Jerome

Sea, Fishing, Two

Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.297, Diderot Publishing

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God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, Country, Independent

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.268

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There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.

Louis O. Kelso

Wisdom, Years, People

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In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two.

Michael Lind

Wisdom, Class, Two

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That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.

Burt Reynolds

Mistake, Taken, Passion

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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

Georg Brandes

School, Home, Discipline

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

John Sayles

Couple, People, Stories

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First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

Ben Stiller

Cutting, People, Three

"Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

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Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

Ben Stiller

Years, Ideas, Fake

"Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

Anthony Holden

Writing, Years, Literature

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The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

Bartolome de las Casas

Christian, Mother, Children

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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Casey Stengel

Baseball, Winning, Seven

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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Jonathan Swift

Taken, Heaven, Atheism

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.392

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Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.

Peter Dobereiner

Ignorance, Mean, Golf

Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

Henry Rollins

Civilization, Black, Flags

Source: www.movieweb.com

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The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.

Stephen King

Book, Mean, Writing

"Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.

Frank Stella

Jobs, Crazy, People

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

Mindy Kaling

Men, Years, Guy

Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.

Mindy Kaling

Sexy, Eight, Four

Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.

Nicolas Winding Refn

Girl, Texas, Together

"Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn on Sex, Violence & More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. July 17, 2013.

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You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers.
Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning,
you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted.
The day isn't a happy day.
Well, what's changed?
You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world.
Something must have changed.
Well, probably it was you.

L. Ron Hubbard

Beautiful, Morning, Flower

L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.8, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Herman Melville

Kings, Violence, Exposed

Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.439, Jazzybee Verlag

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