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“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.”

World Years Jobs America Given Nations Grows Understanding Company Five Twenties Add Including Five Years Competing Somewhere Else Twenty Five Good 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.”

Giving Years Believe Happens Jobs Causes President Five Perspective Balance Give Me Twenties Instance Five Years President Obama Sheets Private Sector Twenty Five Outsourcing Balance Sheets

Author:Mitt Romney

“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.”

Want Years Heart Important Book Different Spiritual Next Sides Imagination Novel Five Fields Ethics Twenties West Islamic Five Years Reaching Twenty Five

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”

People Home Five Stage Loneliness Thousand Lonely Twenties Making Love Fake People Twenty Five

Author:Janis Joplin

“After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.”

Want Feels Years Five Television Twenties Five Years New Things Twenty Five Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Phil Keoghan

“I don't diet per se, I don't weigh myself, I don't look at a number - I haven't done that in probably twenty-five years. I just try to do one of the green drinks nearly every single day, and it's been a long time since I've been sick or anything, so I think it really works.”

Thinking Trying Years Looks Long Done Numbers Five Havens Drink Long Time Sick Twenties Green Diets Five Years Twenty Five

Author:Jillian Barberie

“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

“About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.”

“Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.”

“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.”

“Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.”

Mean Enough Gone Five Percent Negative Twenties Blue Workers Bottom Population Nine Wages Ninety Twenty Five Collars Ninety Nine Blue Collar Net Worth Blue Collar Workers

Author:Michael Hudson

“Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.”

Trying Littles Two Courses Sound Hours Five Cutting Minutes Concerned Twenties Instance Five Minutes Sequence Eleven Twenty Five Eleven Minutes Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.”

People Thinking World Way Different Done Culture Five Seeing Week Six Europe Twenties Meetings Different Ways Traveled Great Times Twenty Five New Cultures

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.”

Years Lasts Five Pride Twenties Five Years Underestimate Twenty Five

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.”

Knows Want Littles Said Remember Voice Five Missing Twenties Phones Feminist Twenty Five Bossy Miss Julie

Author:Liv Ullmann

“Just recently, the administration of Barack Obama, which has broken all sorts of records in regards to deportation, picked up a Guatemalan man living here [in U.S]. I think he had been living here for twenty-five years, had a family, a business, and so on. He had fled from the Mayan region and they picked him up and deported him. To me, that's really sick.”

Thinking Men Years Records Five Broken Sick Twenties Regard Administration Barack Five Years Regions Twenty Five Deportation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.”

Years Looks Roles Five Advantage Twenties Indian Five Years Twenty Five

Author:Kabir Bedi

“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.”

Thinking Knows Wells Play Artist Worry Five Like You Thousand Musician Twenties Clubs Video Like Me Followers Twenty Five Venues Really Like You

Author:Joe Louis Walker

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.”

Giving Should Years School Past Five Twenties Misery Five Years Indication Over The Past Twenty Five School Life School Days

Author:Paul Merton

“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

Years Government Goal Half Five Cutting Twenties Size Five Years Twenty Five Bathtubs

Author:Grover Norquist

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.”

Years I Can Dream Happens Jobs Fall Courses Speak My Own Five Comedy Twenties Profession Evolve Rising Five Years Twenty Five Changing Course

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

Should Age Three Study Five Teacher Periods Should Have Twenties Profession Forty Investigation Sixty Retired Twenty Five Allowance

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.”

People Years Believe Stills Hard Five Crazy Madness Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Hard To Believe Python

Author:Michael Palin

“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

“I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.”

Years Done Felt Bits Careers Five Twenties Enjoyed Five Years Twenty Five Disillusioned Disillusion

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.”

People Important Care Religious Issues Five Percent Concerned Organization Twenties Folks Health Care Tonight Twenty Five Religious Freedom Cleveland

Author:Rob Portman

“At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.”

Five Cost Twenties Dollars Customers Campaigns Cents Revenue Acquisition Twenty Five

Author:Eric Ries

“Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.”

Thinking World Years Persons Helping Past Sound Rooms Worry Five Information Happenings Madness Twenties Useless Five Years Our World Twenty Five Cacophony Useless Information

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.”

Thinking Men Should Success Winning Given Five Twenties Managers Judged Selflessness Twenty Five

Author:Chuck Tanner

“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.”

Real Father Five Nice Mines Ten Twenties Guitar Twenty Five Fourteen Carolina North Carolina Durham

Author:James Taylor

“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

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”

“Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.”

Years Humans Two Earth Lasts Three Born Human Beings Morning Five Minutes Months Twenties Five Years Twelve Midnight Suburbs January Twenty Five Pubs Two Months Buenos Aires

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”

Knows Persons Age Dies Five Drug Behavior Twenties Suicide Accidents Unhappiness Odds Reckless Twenty Five Overdose Leukemia

Book:Limitations

Source: Limitations

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

Mean Book Different Hard Break Five Return Twenties Mad Library Covered Cents Petty Loan Twenty Five Mad At Him

Author:John Steinbeck

“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928

“Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.”

Wells Has Beens Whole Might Animal Five Changed Months Concepts Twenties Traps Steel Twenty Five Humanness Concept Of Time Humanness Is

Book:Lump It Or Leave It

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”

Knows Mind Humans Body Age Dies Waiting Human Beings Known Five Months Personality Female Twenties Posts Thirty Twelve Defects Femininity Mind And Body Twenty Five Shackles Ovaries

Author:Florence King

“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”

People Five Teacher Listening Percent Twenties Twenty Five

Author:Paulo Coelho

“But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?”

Knows Mean Said Silence Five Saws Degrees Twenties Finished Do You Know Pool Apocalypse Fence December Twenty Five Jamie Blake

Author:Sarah Dessen

“What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.”

Years Beautiful Girl Five Died Twenties Brilliant Five Years Twenty Five Five Year Olds

Author:Erich Segal

“Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.”

Knows Wells Life Is Walks Steps Five Car Right Now Twenties Pace Life Is Short Twenty Five Happily Ever After Ever After Old Car

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“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)”

Way Heart Mean Littles Two War Fighting Talking Five Blood Brother Twenties Clean Slave Fingers Damage Throat Laughed Twenty Five Ripped Two Of Us Little Brother Downers Savitar

Book:One Silent Night

Source: One Silent Night

“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.”

Feels Kind Enough Young Loss Five Worst Missing Youth Happenings Twenties Twenty Five Slipping Slipping Away

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.”

Knows Writing Mean Book Dream Hands Natural Lines Opinion Five Twenties Seeking Symbols Vain Compare Regions Customs Application Librarian Inventor Chaotic Twenty Five Superstitious

Book:Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

Two Fall Levels Five Thousand Normal Twenties Twenty Five Restoring Normality

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”

Long Whole Stories Age Five Wise Twenties Thirty Fifty Forty Pale Sixty Worldly Seventies Twenty Five Cigar Mellow Overwork Long Story

Book:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

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