Twenties Quotes

• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

  Bill Gates

  Littles, Days Off, Stills

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Artist, Childhood, Your Children

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• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Hard Work, Entrepreneur

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• I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Thinking, Words You Speak

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

  Nora Ephron

  Regret, Reading, Years

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 11, 2011

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• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  Harold Bloom

  Falling In Love, Real, Reading

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss in The Paris Review, Issue 118, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1991.

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• Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

  Kristin Davis

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Girl

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

  Ian Somerhalder

  People, Roaring, Interest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

  Alphonse Karr

  Courage, Men, Thinking

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• A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Eye, Eight

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.133, Seven Stories Press

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• A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Women, Hockey, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Thinking, Years, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

  John Bingham

  Running, Years, Tests

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

  Tommy Rettig

  Kids, Actors, Stills

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• Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.

  Kristen Bell

  Believe, Love Is, Thinking

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• In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, Motivation, Speak English

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

  Cobie Smulders

  Thinking, Who I Am, Ideas

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• I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

  Jessa Crispin

  Father, Firsts, Parenthood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

  James Cagney

  War, Struggle, Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

  Winona Ryder

  Growing Up, Teenager, Growing

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• When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

  Chaka Khan

  Horse, Riding, Cliffs

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• Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  Candace Bushnell

  Willing, What You Love, Who You Are

  "Candace Bushnell On Sex, Money, And Sarah Palin". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2008.

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• I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

  Lena Dunham

  Like You, Romantic Relationship, Feels

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