Sixteen quotes
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"I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty."
"In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald."
"Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school."
"When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have."
"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."
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"Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts."
"Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years."
"I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel."
"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
"Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it."
"being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions"
"I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything."
"By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker."
"At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous."
"I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet."
"At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer."
