Twenties Quotes - Page 38

• Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Thinking, Long Ago, Years

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.16, Random House

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• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  John Lennon

  Music, Teenager, Writing

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• Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

  Ted Cruz

  Years, Answers, Obscure

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Years, Ideas, Political

  "The principle of federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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• Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Growing Up, Artist, Years

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• My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface stuff and the cosmetic stuff. I was always thinking, 'What do I need to do?' Now in my thirties, it's, 'What do I want to do?' I've just become more solid with my own identity. So whoever wants to say their twenties are better... Yes, they're fun, especially at night - better parties, better cocktails... not better sex though. Absolutely not. And whoever says that is lying because sex in your thirties and beyond is f**king out of this world.

  Zoe Saldana

  Kings, Sex, Fun

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• There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Mean, Kissing

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• Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

  Bayard Rustin

  Character, Gay, Rights

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• It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Xmas, Children, Believe

  "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

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• All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

  Greg Bear

  Nice, Sheep, America

  Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey

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• I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.

  Mavis Gallant

  Jobs, Writing, Paris

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• The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

  Andre Malraux

  Spiritual, Firsts, Century

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• The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

  Gene Baur

  New York, Cities, California

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

  Zell Miller

  Men, Thinking, Years

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Years, Symphony, Sometimes

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• Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

  Herbert Hoover

  People, Feds, Starving

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• The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

  Aristide Briand

  Heart, Men, He Man

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• I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Morning, Food, Tea Drinking

  Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

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• In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Country, Rain, Feet

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

  Walter Damrosch

  Writing, Men, Years

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• When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

  Francesco Clemente

  Crazy, Half, Faces

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• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Four, Facts, Hours

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

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• In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Slave Labor, Civilization, Robots

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

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