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[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.
George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.