Sixteen Quotes - Page 11

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Solomon Burke

Vegas, Hospitality, Sand

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Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

David Lodge

Educational, Cutting, Names

'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 1

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When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

Michael Cera

People, Support, Want

Source: www.avclub.com

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Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Bill Hicks

Emotional, Years, America

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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

Renata Adler

Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Haruki Murakami

School, Years, Brain

Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

Scott Simon

Girl, Children, Boys

"Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Girl, Knowing, Ignorant

Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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To be the best and stay there sweat is necessary.
I'm older. Of course I'm older. That's the beauty of it.
Sixteen years plus different level of wisdom. Different level of understanding. Different level of punishment.
i want to live loooong after my records have fallen, long after my rings have tarnished.
Whatever you got to do to make sure you chase your legacy. Every second of your life.
How will you be remembered? How will you be remembered?
Why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever?
Leave your mark to endure forever.

Ray Lewis

Fighting, Years, Punishment

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A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

Nora Ephron

Summer, Writing, Kids

"Nora on Hollywood: In Her Own Words", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.

Adam Fuss

Photography, Art, Mean

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In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

Renee Fleming

Falling In Love, Passion, Years

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I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.

Paul Blanshard

Christian, Religious, Educational

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In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

Gretchen Rubin

Thinking, Effort, Identity

Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.50, Hachette UK

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being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

Anne Sexton

Pants, Died

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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

William Ralph Inge

Real, Thinking, Two

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No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have one boyfriend. I have two.

Cara Lockwood

Mom, Two, Looks

Cara Lockwood (2006). “Wuthering High: A Bard Academy Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

William Saroyan

Book, Eight, Half

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Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

Daniel Woodrell

Eye, Wind, Skins

"Winter's Bone". Book by Daniel Woodrell, 2006.

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