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• Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

  Jerry Hall

  Texas, Twenties, Fourteen

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• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  Lady Gregory

  Play, America, Twenties

  Lady Gregory (1909). “Seven short plays”

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• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

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• You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

  King Edward VIII

  Country, Kings, Years

  Broadcast, 11 Dec. 1936, in The Times 12 Dec. 1936

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• Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Twenties, Citizens, Criteria

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. March 21, 2006.

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• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Fifty, Twenties

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• Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

  Joan Crawford

  Wise, Party, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  Lord Byron

  Time, Age, Twenties

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• In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

  Lou Holtz

  Responsibility, Rights, Years

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• The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

  William James

  Men, Ideas, Twenties

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.272, Courier Corporation

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• On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

  Janis Joplin

  Fake People, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Past, Our World

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• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

  Eric Ries

  Twenties, Dollars, Acquisition

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• I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

  Rob Portman

  Religious, Organization, Issues

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• I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Careers, Twenties

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• You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Children, Home, Twenties

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• People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

  Michael Palin

  Crazy, Believe, Python

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• One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates, www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Taken, Years

  "Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Government, Years

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• My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

  Paul Merton

  School, Past, Years

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Men, Us Veterans

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• This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Stupid, Reading

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