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• I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it’s all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

  Oscar Hijuelos

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  Tags in Twenty, Duke

• When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the ‘Village Voice,’ and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

  Neil Strauss

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  Tags in Twenty, Gravy

• That’s such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there’s still a whole island to discover.

  Steven Strait

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  A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Topics in Life

  Tags in World, Thirty, Twenty, Inspiration

• Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Twenty, Ignores

• It’s hard to tell how far women’s individuality has come in the past twenty years.

  Annie Lennox

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• I have a daughter, she’s twenty years old.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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• In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

  Mary Schmich

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  Tags in Now, Twenty, Recall, Photos, Lay, How, Grasp, Yourself, Year, Back, Possibility, Fabulous, Much, Before, Really, Way, Look, Looked

• Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

  Zell Miller

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  Tags in Twenty, Rhetoric, Vote, Campaign, Week, Man

• I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn’t created because of some stupid grudge. That’s a shame.

  Steven Adler

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  Tags in Twenty, Holds, Grudge, Music

• There are some friends you don’t meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it’s as if no twenty years has happened – you’re lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

  Norman MacCaig

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• If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

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• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I’d be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove… instead of twenty.

  Vernor Vinge

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• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  Zach Wamp

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• Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.

  Yuan T. Lee

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

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• I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

  Lester Bangs

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