Twenty Five Quotes - Page 6

• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Years, Becoming

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Twenties, Inquiring

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Believe, Teaching, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Twenties, Made

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• When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Men, Names

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.179, Crown/Archetype

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• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Home, Agreement, United States

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• I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Believe, Simple

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, November 13, 2012.

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• Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

  Lee Strasberg

  Art, Hard Work, Twenties

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• I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, White, Black

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• That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

  Bill Klem

  Hands, Voice, Guy

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• Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.

  Mel White

  Rights, Years, Faithful

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• Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Art, Years, Magic

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• It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

  John Hughes

  Rocks, People, Twenties

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• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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• You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

  Bill Lee

  Sports, New York, Team

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• It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"

  Arj Barker

  Loyalty, Baby, Kids

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• You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Book, School, Writing

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• I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

  Agnes Varda

  Real, Grandmother, Twenties

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

  Henry Miller

  Christian, Crazy, War

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• I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said "The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden." So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, "If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life."

  Peter Cook

  Thinking, Secret, Twenties

  "Fictional character: E. L. Wisty". TV Series "On the Braden Beat" ("Are You Spotty?", 1964), 1962-1967.

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• Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Twenties, Want, Purses

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• Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

  George Will

  Mean, Canada, Twenties

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• I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.

  Peter Yarrow

  Children, Reality, Two

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• When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mother, Children, Real

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 15, 2015.

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