"There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before."
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"The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about."
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"I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century."
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"You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen."
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"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."
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"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion."
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"At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization."
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"The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop."
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"One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue."
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"Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day."
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"I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day."
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"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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"The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument."
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"I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write."
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"I gained twenty pounds [during pregnancy of my wife]."
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
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"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."
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