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The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.
According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.
The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
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.
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.
If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.
My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.
I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.
I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
Will an hour be enough?” An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.
I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.
I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.