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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
Chinua Achebe

Done, Sometimes, Year

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Time, Art

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Him, America

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Men, Fun, American

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
Adam Sandler

Family, Great, Dad

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
Kevin Mitnick

Normal, Percent, Market

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder

Time, Minutes, Eggs

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
George Canning

Matters, Content, Advantage

I'm very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear?
Susan Orlean

Time, Wanted, Though

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
Susan Orlean

School, Father, Writing

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Tired, Try, Again

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
Annie Lennox

Women, Past, Hard

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov

Teacher, Two, Young

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!
Kevin Spacey

Heart, Rebel, Brains

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

Women, Men, Times

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
John Jay Chapman

Politics, Thought, Behind

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
Pete Townshend

Work, Made, Two

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky

Girl, Able, Marry

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
R. Lee Ermey

Past, Training, Changes

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson

Humor, Women, Hopes

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Good, Others, Few

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.
Diablo Cody

Young, Divorce, Group

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
Mindy Kaling

Romantic, Past, Stupidity

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.
Christopher Walken

Business, Movies, Made

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun

Work, Cannot, Maybe

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
David Sedaris

Book, Writing, Started

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.
David Sedaris

Writing, Thinking, Since

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
Tracey Ullman

God, While, Worked

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.
Lester Bangs

Mean, Two, Talk

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