“I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point I was done writing about Andy, done talking about Andy....but now, I kind of love it. All these smart, attractive young people think I'm cool! So here I am a guy in his sixties with all of these interesting friends in their twenties. It's very stimulating and keeps me very much in the present.” PeopleThinkingWritingFirstsKindMeanBookDoneYoungGuyInterestingTalkingSmartTwentiesAttractiveReviewsSixtyHere I AmKinds Of Love Author:Bob Colacello
“I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.” MomentsBigsWeekTwentiesCousinChillCatchingGrindMy CousinAmsterdamCatching UpIbiza Author:Tinie Tempah
“I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.” PeopleUsedWorryHeardTwentiesInsaneTeenagerSchizophreniaSchizophrenic Author:Brad Warner
“After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.” KnowsYearsI CanSixTwenties Author:Blixa Bargeld
“Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.” WantFightingEnergyEnjoyInterestMillionsRightsEqualTwentiesVery GoodSeekingRussiaStableOur RelationshipSyriaEqual RightsStrategicExtremismDisagreementUnifiedTacticalRadicalism Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“As a young actor, there's a very small group of kids, just a handful. As you get older, all of a sudden, there's a bunch of guys your age that work. It's a very different experience when you used to be on the short list because you were young and there's only so many kids that can do the work and then all of a sudden you're in your twenties and thirties and there's a whole bunch of guys that can do your work.” DifferentWholeKidsAgeYoungUsedGuyActorsCan DoGroupsTwentiesListsBunchUsed To BeWorking ItHandfulSmall GroupsYoung ActorsDifferent Experiences Author:Ricky Schroder
“There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.” YearsKindMeanMatterMotherFiveDaughterTwentiesRaisedFive YearsNervesTwenty FiveUnspokenShortcutsMother And Daughter Author:Stephen Karam
“The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.” PeopleWarLosesModernSightTwentiesPressesStrikesShouldersCaliforniaNovelistsKillersButtonsPakistanCorpsesRocketsDronesInsidious Author:Teju Cole
“Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic.” FormCoursesReadingFoundSexKnownFateExpressionTwentiesGermanyOscarsHostileDiariesPlatonicWildeSex Love Author:Philip Kitcher
“I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.” JobsFiveHappenedDeserveTwentiesExcellentAcademicRight TimeRight PlaceTwenty FiveTenurePrinceton Author:Paul Lansky
“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.” PeopleProblemDreamWishGroupsMankindAuthorityTwentiesUnhappyThirtyFortyEntertainingTeens Author:George Carlin
“I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.” PeopleKnowsStillsFactsJobsMovingChallengesCollegeMomDadInvolvedTwentiesExpectedMoving ForwardGraduatesApartmentMom And Dad Author:Anna Quindlen
“Twenty five years in business, including business with other nations, competing with companies across the world, has given me an understanding of what it is that makes America a good place to grow and add jobs, and why jobs leave America - why businesses decide to locate here, and why they decide to locate somewhere else.” WorldYearsJobsAmericaGivenNationsGrowsUnderstandingCompanyFiveTwentiesAddIncludingFive YearsCompetingSomewhere ElseTwenty FiveGood Place Author:Mitt Romney
“What outsourcing causes - what it's caused by, rather. I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet. I happen to believe that having been in the private sector for twenty-five years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created - that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand.” GivingYearsBelieveHappensJobsCausesPresidentFivePerspectiveBalanceGive MeTwentiesInstanceFive YearsPresident ObamaSheetsPrivate SectorTwenty FiveOutsourcingBalance Sheets Author:Mitt Romney
“It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.” ThinkingWantStillsWarTwentiesTeens Author:Stephen Farrell
“I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.” NeedsI CanPlayUsedLosesLevelsFiveMinutesTenTwentiesTrackClockGood Sense Author:Z'EV
“I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.” KnowsYearsFirstsEnoughSpeakPathStageDevelopmentBehaviorHarderTwentiesFinalsChinaChineseExpertsPretendingChaptersPointingParallelsStages Of Development Author:Charles R. Morris
“When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.” ThinkingWayLongHouseLinesNumbersMarriedTwentiesLong WayBeing Married Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"” MindFirstsMeanTwoLanguageCitiesFiveCenturyThousandLimitsMembersSixTwentiesMovedCaughtEastTinyMilesBlockBordersVillageGangMexicanGhettoThousand MilesGrannyGang Members Author:Richard Rodriguez
“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.” FirstsFatherTwentiesStoresParenthoodTwenty OnePlanned ParenthoodWork Experience Author:Jessa Crispin
“Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one."” PeopleIfsGivingYearsSaidPoetGive MeTwentiesDearAlsSkepticTeaseParody Author:Tariq Ali
“I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.” WayFeelsWritingSelfEnoughDreamSeeingPerspectiveProtectTwentiesDistanceYounger Self Author:Dani Shapiro
“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.” IfsTryingYearsRememberResultsEffortHabitBehaviorTwentiesPatientStartingThirtyFortyLastingTake TimeBe PatientTrying To ChangeOld Habits Author:Darren Hardy
“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.” YearsLooksLife IsCausesRiskTwentiesMirrorsHillsTwenty OneHere I Am Author:John Assaraf
“I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.” WantYearsHeartImportantBookDifferentSpiritualNextSidesImaginationNovelFiveFieldsEthicsTwentiesWestIslamicFive YearsReachingTwenty Five Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.” BelieveTalkingMomTwentiesStrongerMy MomOne Time Author:Serena Williams
“I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker.” WellsWinningTwentiesConsistencyMomentum Author:Serena Williams
“I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.” ThinkingGuyMistakeTwentiesMaking Mistakes Author:Rashida Jones
“In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.” IfsThinkingPersonsDoeHelpingWould BeTurnsFatherTermFiveNiceDoorsTwentiesThirtySkepticalDiggingHaircutsGood FatherNice PersonBad Haircuts Author:Rashida Jones
“I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in his early twenties, there were things mentioned that showed up in his novels. One of the sweetest things in those letters was him wanting to be a writer but doubting himself, not having confidence in himself.” WarYoungNovelDoubtLettersTwentiesPrisonerSweetestPrisoner Of War Author:Susan Sarandon
“Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.” PeopleIfsLongEnoughShowsAgeTogetherCertainAmountBandTwentiesGet BetterTunesGood Enough Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States' role in Libya as an appropriately restrained one in providing some international support for the work of those trying to bring democratic change against a regime that has undoubtedly been dictatorial, particularly in the past twenty years.” TryingYearsSelfMatterStatesPastUnitedRolesUnited StatesSupportSpringDeterminationTwentiesDemocraticInternationalRegimesSelf DeterminationProvidingSupporterIndigenousLibyaArab Spring Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenFirstsThreeFeltSecretSeriousNeededInvolvedGayTwentiesEncountersTypicalPromiscuousSerious Relationship Author:Andrew Solomon
“There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasEvilSexFeltPleasureGayTwentiesStrangerParksIndulgenceHaving Sex Author:Andrew Solomon
“The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money.” WantRealityTogetherPercentTwentiesSevenFranceGermanyStabilityMechanismPackagesBailouts Author:Martin Schulz
“I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.” ThinkingYearsSaidFoundFansMinesTwentiesDown AndGladSatInterviewsBobDylanHighlightsTurned Down Author:Ralph Stanley
“I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwentiesDramatic Author:Marianne Williamson
“I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.” IfsYearsLongTwoFactsJobsLawPoliticalMy OwnSpacePartyCreatingTwentiesResponsibleObjectivesRealmsOppositionTwo YearsDozenPolitical PartiesVigilantSuccessorsRwandaTwenty Two Author:Paul Kagame
“The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.” WayYearsIdeasPlayRunningStageNew YorkIdealsYears AgoDecidedHollywoodTwentiesRaisesMovedProductionsDebtTheatrePartnersVentureAnthemAssisting Author:Jeff Britting
“Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.” WantYearsWellsSaidIdeasPlayFilmHeardDirectorsTwentiesArtisticScoreJumpingAnthemAustinStagingFilm Scores Author:Jeff Britting
“Sunlight is essential to the body's ability to absorb calcium from the food you are eating. Make sure you receive adequate vitamin D every day through sunlight. About fifteen to twenty minutes of sun on the face and hands is usually enough for most of us.” EnoughBodyHandsFacesAbilitySunMinutesEssentialsEatingTwentiesSunlightFifteenAdequateVitaminsCalciumVitamin D Author:Sharon Gannon
“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.” PeopleHomeFiveStageLonelinessThousandLonelyTwentiesMaking LoveFake PeopleTwenty Five Author:Janis Joplin
“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.” WritingFirstsBookWorstChangedSickTwentiesIllnessDecadesAcceptedExoticChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume
“I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.” KnowsFirstsGirlVisionBoysKnow HowCenturyTwentiesJustifyAspireGirl Thing Author:Geena Davis
“Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.” PeopleKidsUsedFeltWaterAnimalDogDadCreaturesEatingCatTwentiesMy DadFishesFishingVeganPanicCat And Dog Author:Dan Mathews
“I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.” FirstsKindMadeI CanUsedCan DoDecisionActingMonthsExerciseTwentiesUsed To BeBurnedCrashModerationDietingBurned Out Author:Rhea Seehorn
“I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.” YearsConsciousnessTenTwentiesSanityFifteenIndication Author:Billy Corgan
“What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.” ThinkingNeedsSelfHardFourDogTwentiesSevenCaringSelf CenteredNarcissistic Author:Bitsie Tulloch
“Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.” LongTwoImportantDifferentStoriesFilmFormHoursFourTelevisionTwentiesEightStorytellingThirteenTwenty Two Author:Grant Bowler
“It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.” TryingYearsTwoHardMotherFoundFatherParentGrowing UpKnowingGrowingTwentiesTwo YearsGet BackNot KnowingReconcileHard ThingsTwenty Two Author:Michael Franti