“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsStatesProblemAmericaLeftGivenPresidentUnitedPayAttentionTalkingUnited StatesSpeechOfficeTwentiesIncomeInequalityAround The WorldAgendasSolitaryWagesIncome Inequality Author:William J. Clinton
“What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?'” LongYoungGirlThreeAsksVoiceTalkingTwentiesCancer Author:Jamie Foxx
“Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.” MenWorldDoneWould BeHoursTalkingFourTwentiesWesternPhonesBillionsCellsValleysPigsCell PhoneVergeSexistWestern WorldSiliconSilicon Valley Book:Gathering Prey: Prey Source: Gathering Prey: Prey
“Though we feel extremely connected through all this technology [social networks], there's also this disconnect that happens. Because you're not actually talking to anyone. You're not actually meeting them for coffee. To me, social media is about "you". It's like, "Well, twenty people like this thing I said", so that's about me.” PeopleFeelsWellsSaidHappensSocialTalkingTechnologyMediaTwentiesMeetingsSocial MediaConnectedCoffeeSocial Network Author:Gerard Way
“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.” PeopleYearsStillsStatesJobsFoundOpportunityLostTalkingFiveIndustryComputerYears AgoTwentiesConstantPhonesCellsFive YearsCell PhoneTwenty Five Author:Wayne Dyer
“I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more.” ThinkingWellsTalkingStageCoupleJokesSittingTwentiesDollarsDesksBucksRetard Author:Larry David
“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 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
“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.” IfsFeelsYearsHas BeensSeemsPastTalkingBoysFiveComedySeriousBuiltTwentiesCriticsInevitableThirtyPlaywrightThirty YearsNot TalkingTwenty Five Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].” DifferentHandsNumbersTalkingPeriodsTwentiesDelayParametersTime Periods Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.” WritingBookTalkingTaughtEnglandTwentiesFellowsUniversityBackgroundsFifteenThrillingMatthewBirmingham Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.” PeopleThinkingMadeSaidCareLastsHousePresidentTalkingLeaderMillionsProgressRiskMembersGainsTwentiesElectionMajorityRateIncludingCongressHealth CareAgendasStakesSenateSpeakersPrincipalLowestMajority Leader Author:Barack Obama
“Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.” WayYearsMightLostViewsTalkingYears AgoTwentiesCuresFraudListenersLost Faith Book:Enduring Love Source: Enduring Love
“Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.” KnowsWantWellsSaidEyeTurnsLeftAbilityTalkingKnow HowOppositesTwentiesMilesBunchIdiotDisgustingNinetyExitBossyGps Author:James Patterson
“Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)” WayHeartMeanLittlesTwoWarFightingTalkingFiveBloodBrotherTwentiesCleanSlaveFingersDamageThroatLaughedTwenty FiveRippedTwo Of UsLittle BrotherDownersSavitar Book:One Silent Night Source: One Silent Night