Twenties Quotes - Page 40

• It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight

  Howard Raiffa

  Team, Two, Eight

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

  Abby Sunderland

  Eight, Water, Degrees

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Girl, Country, Queens

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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

  Carmen Electra

  High Heels, Four, Skirts

  "Carmen Electra's Shy Side". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. August 26, 2008.

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• I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Two, Hours

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• I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

  Lennie James

  Drama, Two, Ghost Stories

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

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• People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

  Jackson Browne

  Baseball, Growing Up, Children

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• I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

  Peter DeLuise

  Years, Discipline, Typical

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

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• If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Plain Language, People, Simplicity

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• If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Men, Married

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• Gold were as good as twenty orators.

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Orators

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.148

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• My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

  A. P. Herbert

  Golf, Men, Blue

  A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

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• In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

  Mary Schmich

  Photography, Years, Looks

  Mary Schmich (2012). “Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Life, Character, Five

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Golden, Do Unto Others

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• The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Hero, Yankees

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• If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc

  Kate White

  Sex, Coffee, Average

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• Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Simple

  "Bauer officially jumps into 2000 race". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1999.

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• Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  War, Civilization, Class

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?

  Jordan Belfort

  Average, Dollars, Week

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.176, Bantam

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• I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'

  J. California Cooper

  Home, Thinking, Years

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Sep 02, 2012

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• This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Years, Armistice, Wwi

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• When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

  Leon Blum

  Children, Selflessness, Thirty

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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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