Twenty One Quotes - Page 3

• It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Years, Twenties

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• Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

  Samuel Johnson

  Twenties

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.144

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• I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Thinking, Twenties

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• When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?

  Angel Grant

  Yoga, Class, Serenity

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• That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

  Ray Romano

  Men, Years, Games

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Book, Hands, Justice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was twenty one years old and I thought, "here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.

  John Assaraf

  Mirrors, Years, Here I Am

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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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, Twenties, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Skills, Age

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.280, Routledge

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• One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Thinking, One Day

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

  Robin S

  One Day, Twenties, Ancient

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• I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

  Frank James

  Years, Perfect, Twenties

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• What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'

  Mark Fidrych

  Baseball, Nice, Past

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• When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Book, Animal

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

  Grace Paley

  Couple, Kids, Writing

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• Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Iraq

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• one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Men, Excellence

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• Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.

  Roald Dahl

  Feet, Together, Twenties

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

  Robert Indiana

  Years, Numbers, House

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• I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Depressing, Moving, Rain

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Past, Insomnia

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Little Nugget”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, Years, Issues

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• [O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

  Joan Didion

  Blessing, Twenties, Three

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 07, 2011

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• FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.

  Rodney Erickson

  Eight, Years, Lasts

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