Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus."
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Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
Willa Cather
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
Angus Young
Musician
"With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals."
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
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"If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book."
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"Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out."
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"I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?"
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"I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent"
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"I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius."
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"Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly."
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"After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow."
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"Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels."
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"Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?"
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"Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less."
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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."
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"Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries."
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"I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven."
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"Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen."
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"At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general."
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"At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand."
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"I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all."
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"The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from."
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"I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities."
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