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“Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.”

People Years Play Faces Games Sports Saws Heard Changed Tvs Years Ago Twenties Sticks Fishing Grandson Lacrosse

Author:Gary Gait

“Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.”

People Years Feelings Today Fiction Knowing Five Effects Years Ago Twenties Science Fiction Climate Climate Change Excuse Five Years Not Knowing Twenty Five No Excuses

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.”

People Knows Way Writing Said Song Felt Simple Saws Love You Wind Twenties Wings Seven Beach Songwriting Loved Ones

Author:Bette Midler

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-old guys. I have no idea what other people are thinking. I’m not really in touch.”

People Thinking Years Ideas Ends Guy Five Twenties No Idea Five Years Comparison Freak Twenty Five Five Year Olds Old Guys Letterman

Author:Jared Leto

“People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.”

People Thinking Years Wells Made Hands Broken Arms Paid Twenties Dues Nine Made It Fourteen

Author:Larry Holmes

“I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable image. And now I'm kind of stuck with it. It's like when I don't wear my fringy, gypsy stuff, people kind of look at me like, 'What's wrong?”

People Years Looks Kind Stuff Wonderful Years Ago Decided Twenties Originals Down And Stuck Sat Look At Me Fabulous Hunters Gypsy Unforgettable

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.”

People Thinking Should Believe Father Fun I Believe Parent Trouble Regret Late My Friends Twenties Parenting Having Fun Torn

Author:Eric McCormack

“Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'”

People Looks War Actors Stars Half Company Return Six Program Twenties Theater Credit Seconds Envious I Smile

Author:Caroline Blakiston

“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.”

People Three Voice Business Twenties Entrepreneur Core Inner Voice Inconvenient

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.”

Source: Half The Sky: How to Change the World

“Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.”

Source: The works of Thomas Paine: a hero in the American revolution

“I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.”

People Years Used Fiction Worst Example Fields Percent Twenties Science Fiction Defense Conclusion Repeats Revelations Ninety Ammunition

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk--or why. It sounds like a twelve-step mantra and I'm not in Anything Anonymous, though to read some of the crap they write about me, you'd think I should be. I have the kind of life a lot of people would probably sell a kidney to just experience a bit of. But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”

Source: Where She Went

“It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."”

People Stills Certain Women Lines Forget Let Me Twenties Seven Lovely Faded Lovely Woman

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.”

People Ifs Way Country Running Destiny Republican Percent Vote Twenties Democrat One Way Forty Swings Eighty Abe

Author:Tom Clancy

“She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.”

People Stills Twenties Seven Lovely Faded Lovely Woman

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.”

People Thinking Way Writing Given Term Leadership Leader Minutes Habit Twenties Snow Openness Instruction Ownership Short Term Way Of Thinking Snowstorms

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

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