Alice Paul
Suffragist, Activist
"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote."
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Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive."
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen."
Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty."
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"Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people."
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"If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies."
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"You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come."
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"You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go."
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"I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes."
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"Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?"
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"Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity."
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"In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization."
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"My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties."
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"I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?"
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"It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred."
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"I will lose twenty pounds like... I can lose ten... I have. I can lose ten in a week and a few days."
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"Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!"
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"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism."
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"Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope."
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"If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic."
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"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."
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"Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back."
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"George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?"
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"I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three."
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