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“If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we'll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they'll have to respond. But they're not going to respond to us until that happens.”

People Ifs Happens Left Moral Principles Millions Ten Twenties Majority Democrat Voting Scare Fifteen Moral Principles Hold Fast

Author:Chris Hedges

“In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.”

Ifs Courses Actors Involved Roots Twenties Blame Following Singers Branches Remarkable

Author:Terrence Howard

“I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra! I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone. If I can have even a twenty-minute walk or swim and another twenty quiet minutes to myself at night, I can be much more giving all day long.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Long I Can Night Walks Minutes Balance Quiet Twenties Swim Stable Grounded Crave Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Laura Regan

“My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Firsts Book Done Mother Died Twenties Seven Writing Life

Author:Anne Roiphe

“Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.”

Ifs Years May Real Care Political Fighting Wall Six Twenties Iraq Teenager Six Year Olds Ramifications

Author:Chuck D

“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."”

People Ifs Giving Years Said Poet Give Me Twenties Dear Als Skeptic Tease Parody

Author:Tariq Ali

“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.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Doe Helping Would Be Turns Father Term Five Nice Doors Twenties Thirty Skeptical Digging Haircuts Good Father Nice Person Bad Haircuts

Author:Rashida Jones

“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.”

People Ifs Long Enough Shows Age Together Certain Amount Band Twenties Get Better Tunes Good Enough

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Men Firsts Three Felt Secret Serious Needed Involved Gay Twenties Encounters Typical Promiscuous Serious Relationship

Author:Andrew Solomon

“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.”

Ifs Years Long Two Facts Jobs Law Political My Own Space Party Creating Twenties Responsible Objectives Realms Opposition Two Years Dozen Political Parties Vigilant Successors Rwanda Twenty Two

Author:Paul Kagame

“If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.”

Ifs Trying Years Looks Past Community Careers Color Lows Twenties Corners Income Over The Past Around The Corner Low Income

Author:Van Jones

“If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one of the things you can say is pretty much zero risk and there is the potential for massive benefit. Even if it's just minimal benefit, who wouldn't want that?”

Ifs Want Mean Risk Minutes Benefits Twenties Massive Zero Versus Meditating

Author:Jennifer Ashton

“When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.”

Ifs Years Looks Moments Form Memories Information Exciting Twenties Preservation

Author:Reggie Watts

“Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life”

Ifs Needs Years Enough Information Materials Twenties Rest Of Your Life

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.”

Ifs Hard America Turns Three Car Conversation Percent Twenties Addiction Perceive Meals What If Compassionate Loved Ones Topics

Author:Angel Grant

“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?”

Ifs Ends Used Class Drug Yoga Twenties Stronger Shooting Serenity Heroin Grudge Twenty One Coke Thirteen Asana Shooting Up Holding Grudges

Author:Angel Grant

“If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens Seems Past Talking Boys Five Comedy Serious Built Twenties Critics Inevitable Thirty Playwright Thirty Years Not Talking Twenty Five

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed right. 'Love is composed of a single soul, inhabiting two bodies.'" He took her by the shoulders drawing her close. "It rang true for me, in a way nothing else did. Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Years Littles Two Soul Philosophy Body Bits Love Is Pieces Love You Kissing Years Ago Twenties Drawing Shoulders Greek Damn I Love You Katie Greek Philosophy

Author:Tessa Dare

“If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.”

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Author:Nico Tortorella

“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.”

“Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.”

Ifs Feels Years Social Cases Changed Duty Years Ago Twenties Obliged Framework Niceties

Author:Mark Ravenhill

“If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.”

People Ifs Percent Hundred Twenties Israel Palestinian

Author:Amos Oz

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Courage Twenties Audacious Business Planning

Author:Alphonse Karr

“It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.”

Ifs Giving Children Today School Given Half Boys Plans Drug Ten Training Percent Twenties Our Children Clinton Hospitals Nurse School Nurse

Author:Peter Breggin

“We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Two Shows Speak Technology Century Twenties Cinema

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“Me and my friends would drive for eight hours to play for twenty people. That was cool, and if a couple of people bought t-shirts, that would be the greatest thing. We could go eat some hamburgers that night.”

People Ifs Play Would Be Night Hours Couple My Friends Twenties Eight Shirts T Shirt Hamburgers

Author:Girl Talk

“I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.”

People Ifs Knows Age America Late England Twenties Majority Reviews Concerts Teens Puberty

Author:George Michael

“Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.”

Ifs Trying I Can Courses Differences Awareness Twenties Vices Erase Vice Versa Amplify

Author:Vivek Shraya

“If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.”

“I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.”

Ifs Young Used Records Minutes Band Performances Twenties My Favorite Bored Live Performance Favorite Bands

Author:James Dean Bradfield

“I left my theatre the Loose Moose almost twenty years ago, and I hardly ever go back. Sometimes I go back to do a Mask class. They're doing more of this than I was doing when I left. Often it's the same improvisers but they're older. And now, they don't care if the theatre's full or not.”

Ifs Years Sometimes Care Left Class Years Ago Twenties Don't Care Theatre Mask Moose

Author:Keith Johnstone

“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.”

Ifs Years May Happens Today Social Hours Week Minutes Media Months Messages Mouths Years Ago Twenties Social Media Customers Horrible Seconds Word Of Mouth

Author:Bill Capodagli

“Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.”

People Ifs Years Wells Art Film Form Audience Television Years Ago Twenties Thirty Documentaries Distribution Theatrical Thirty Years Intervening Documentary Films

Author:Errol Morris

“These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.”

“I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.”

Ifs Men Play Wanted Left Gone Team Football Twenties Clubs Liverpool Playing Football

Author:Jamie Carragher

“There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Leader Movement Twenties Crisis Climate Edges Pointing

Author:Bill McKibben

“I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.”

Ifs Twenties

Author:Sienna Miller

“If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.”

Ifs Thinking Two Whole Roles Tests Machines Twenties Screens Bored Awards Dozen Hype Circuits

Author:Viggo Mortensen

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

Ifs Knows Children Home Loses Five Twenties Twenty Five

Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

“When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.”

Ifs Trying Kind Age Creative Figures Twenties Impact Who You Are Work Out Artistic Seventeen

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.”

Ifs Years Literature Clear Twenties Russia Socialism Eugenics

Book:Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics

Source: Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

Ifs Men Funny Women Sleep Mistake Jokes Twenties Hilarious Funny Relationship Nineteen Tramps Questions Asked No Sleep Sleeping Around

Author:Joan Rivers

“If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.”

Ifs Looks Funny Women Six Twenties Damn Twelve Sixteen

Author:Chris Rock

“In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.”

Ifs Country Motivation Speak Parent Born Differences Twenties Like Me Speak English

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!”

Ifs Heart Age Brain Havens Twenties Thirty Birthday Rebel Establishment Uprising 30th Birthday

Author:Kevin Spacey

“There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.”

Ifs Film Turns Strange Twenties Independent Manage Accomplishment Bottles Chips Thrilling Bucks Glue Independent Film Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:Eric Stoltz

“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.”

Ifs Thinking Years Made Shows Business Five Twenties Musical Thirty Show Business Thirty Years Twenty Five

Author:Christopher Walken

“Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.”

People Ifs Trying Lying Given Rooms Modern Minutes Ten Demand Twenties Afternoon Workplace Naps Lying Down

Author:Andrew Weil

“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Moving Desire Hours Pleasure Deals Four Week Six Creating Twenties Seven Complaining Moving Forward Eighteen Inventing Inventing Things

Author:Alber Elbaz

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