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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. -- Joan Rivers
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. -- Olga Korbut
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. -- Edith Sitwell
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments. -- Jay Leno
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere. -- Olga Korbut
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time. -- Bill de Blasio
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. -- Jerry Saltz
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. -- Thomas Carlyle
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. -- Robert Redford
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. -- Sarah Hall
I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way". -- Sarah Silverman
A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers. -- Kami Garcia
Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. -- Elliott Abrams
Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. -- John Adams
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference. -- Peter Singer
You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question. -- Sheena Iyengar
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them. -- Jennifer Egan
Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain. -- Lance Armstrong
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth. -- Julie Andrews
... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty. -- John Boyne
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? -- Richard Henry Lee
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. -- Teju Cole
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. -- Anne Hull
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. -- Anne Fadiman
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. -- Charles Dickens
When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job. -- Mickey Rooney
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. -- Christopher Columbus
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore. -- Olga Korbut
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals! -- Robert Burns
At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. -- Betty Buckley
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it. -- Judith Viorst
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know. -- Olga Korbut
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. -- Nikola Tesla
A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her. -- Gene Ween
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. -- David Levithan
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again. -- Jeffrey Archer
You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. -- Mary MacLane
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too. -- Noam Chomsky
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much. -- J. C. Ryle
There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old. -- Kate Winslet
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail. -- Donna Tartt
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker. -- Jo Nesbo
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it. -- Jodi Picoult
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. -- Lilly Ledbetter
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted. -- Walter Kirn
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill. -- Garrison Keillor
Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. -- Julie Andrews Edwards
Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis. -- H. L. Mencken
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. -- J. K. Rowling
Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. -- Patricia Highsmith
His names is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would yoy like to meet him~? -- Tony Visconti
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. -- Terry Pratchett
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. -- John Stuart Mill
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back. -- Harper Lee
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. -- Sibel Edmonds
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. -- Jill Lepore
I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. -- Mimsy Sadofsky
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.... -- Anne Sexton
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good. -- Bessie Smith
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman. -- George Harrison
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. -- Philip Caputo
What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system. -- Bertrand Russell
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. -- Paul Goldberger
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. -- Bert Campaneris
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion -- Helen Rowland
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. -- Grantland Rice
I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer. -- Richard Rodney Bennett
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life. -- Jess Walter
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian. -- N. T. Wright
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below. -- Hudson Stuck
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. -- Jill Lepore
What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus. -- Albert Schweitzer
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration. -- Olga Korbut
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then -- Tom Lehrer
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity. -- Duncan Sheik
He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head. -- Glenn Hoddle
I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things. -- Phil Keoghan
I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice. -- Luke Evans
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty. -- Mark Twain
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper? -- Herbert Hoover
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other. -- Victor Hugo
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen. -- Samantha Shannon
Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. -- Rick Riordan
Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide open.He was so nineteen. -- Jennifer Echols
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born. -- Jill Lepore
The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five. -- Adrienne Rich
I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories. -- George Singleton
The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. -- Haruki Murakami
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic. -- Sergei Prokofiev
In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband. -- Pia Zadora
The reason I don't worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I'll take those odds every f*cking day. -- Jon Stewart
I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting. -- Patrick Kane

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