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Never in a million years did I think I ’d start wearing perforated foam shoes, but I not only wear the Merrell Hydro Mocs regularly, I wear them in neon-pastel Pomelo yellow, so everyone who sees me walking along the beach knows that I have evolved in a profound way since my caring-too-much twenties and thirties. – Marci Robin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He’s been my coach since I’m six years old until my early twenties. – Henry Levy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black! – Ganga Sagar Pant	added by adventure_p 2 years ago
The Roaring Twenties were a great period of time for investors but they didn't end well. – Randy Frederick	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some of these nurses are in their early twenties, it can break a hardened war veteran, so they will obviously be affected by this. – Rahuldeb Sarkar	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Shape is a huge one, and I'm always looking for something really interesting and ornate when I pull dresses for my clients, it's going to be all over the place, sequins, embellishment, beading...think of the Roaring Twenties and 100 hundred years later. – Katie Keim	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Notes To Self: 1.The falling of autumn leaves is not your fault. 2.Stop piling candles for decoration. They are meant to be burnt. 3.Silence has a voice of its own. Listen to your own silence. 4.A piece of advice from a divorced and a formerly political prisoner: “to be successful, avoid two things: women and politics!” 5.A semi-colon is the middle finger in a sentence when writing fiction. 6.Be sadist when you write. Good things come out of your character only when bad things happen to them. 7.A comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy in life, you will only find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. 8.No expectations. Just instincts. 9.Undergraduate degrees of creative writing are rubbish. They are vehicles of producing mass ignorance. Because if undergraduates want to become writers, they have to spend their twenties reading excessively first. 10.Every time you get rejected by a publisher, be thankful. It is a boost for your ego to keep going forward. It is a second chance to reflect, write, and edit. It is a rebirth. It is similar to being given the question-sheet in an exam to revisit your answers before you submit your paper. 11.You are fake and hypocritical when you write for fame or political purpose. These are exterior. Honest and free writing is interior: that is when you write for yourself. 12.Mark things in green. It is the colour of grace, hope and nature. Red is bloody and fascist. 13.Reason, not need. - King Lear 14.Your body is roughly 72 per cent water. Keep hydrated. 15.Read alone. Write alone. Eat accompanied. 16.Do not drive all the time. Cycle when possible. 17.More radio. Less TV. 18.Read more. Write less. Writing comes later. 19.Sing to a mirror. 20.Re-paint your walls. 21.Read an article or summarise a short story a day. 22.Learn a new word a day too. 23.Become drunk with poetry. 24.Watch foreign films. 25.Buy mother a piece of jewellery with first salary. 26.Publish a book before you are 30. 27.Practice poetry. For fun. 28.Have a tattoo you will regret. 29.Put that bloody mobile phone down! Do not become a machine driven by machines! 30.Speak less. Listen more. – Akram Al Deek	added by anonymous 5 years ago
In my twenties, it all hit so fast and so big that it was a little overwhelming — wonderful, obviously, and I’m very grateful for it. But it got to a level also where the kinds of things that I was being offered were not the kinds of things I want to do, i was constantly being offered horror films, because I was known for horror films. Or bad romantic comedies. I just wasn’t interested in the scripts and I was feeling a bit unhappy with the things that were coming to me. And I was feeling a little bored with the whole thing. I thought, ‘I want a change.’ So, I moved to London. – Dwayne Johnson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It’s quite likely that many of those who reported drinking regularly during their late teens went on to continue or escalate that habit throughout their adult life, in an ideal world, parents would both try to delay alcohol initiation until the late teens or early twenties and also try teach their kids to drink moderately and responsibly. – Rick Grucza	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I wanted a baby three years ago, spencer was a little hesitant. Then one thing after another came up. We had work obligations, like ‘ Celebrity Big Brother ’ in the U.K., which I did not want to be pregnant for. I ’m actually really thankful we waited. I thought I was ready in my twenties, but with everything we had going on, it just would n’t have been a good situation for us. Pratt added. – Heidi Montag	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When I started, the people using steroids were almost exclusively men in their twenties and thirties, but what we see now is that more and more young boys and girls are interested, it has to do with the fixation with body image, the desire to look good... – Morten Heierdal of Anti-Doping Norway	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Sadly, we lost this generation due to the bailouts. The generation of people in their twenties today, young people, young scientists go abroad, unfortunately. – Alexis Tsipras	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We talked about our careers and the things girls in their mid-twenties talk about, it was so normal it almost seems fake. – Katy Summerlin	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working. – Michael Bivona	added by JP03 8 years ago
They are in their late twenties or thirties so it's very much new wealth, and they will be looking towards luxury as a means of showing status and success. – Fflur Roberts	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is definitely higher than 12 percent, perhaps around the late teens or even the lows twenties, but that is a guess based on anecdotal evidence. – Simon Talbot	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We're now in a position where most people in their first or second jobs, in their early to late twenties can't even afford to rent a studio flat or one-bedroom flat. – Reza Merchant	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sometimes people will decide that I have written this book about my wild behavior in my twenties and Reese is America's sweetheart and they want to put us in opposition to each other, and we laugh about that. – Cheryl Strayed	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Never in a million years did I think I ’d start wearing perforated foam shoes, but I not only wear the Merrell Hydro Mocs regularly, I wear them in neon-pastel Pomelo yellow, so everyone who sees me walking along the beach knows that I have evolved in a profound way since my caring-too-much twenties and thirties.

– Marci Robin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s been my coach since I’m six years old until my early twenties.

– Henry Levy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black!

– Ganga Sagar Pant

added by adventure_p
2 years ago

The Roaring Twenties were a great period of time for investors but they didn't end well.

– Randy Frederick

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Some of these nurses are in their early twenties, it can break a hardened war veteran, so they will obviously be affected by this.

– Rahuldeb Sarkar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Shape is a huge one, and I'm always looking for something really interesting and ornate when I pull dresses for my clients, it's going to be all over the place, sequins, embellishment, beading...think of the Roaring Twenties and 100 hundred years later.

– Katie Keim

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Notes To Self: 1.The falling of autumn leaves is not your fault. 2.Stop piling candles for decoration. They are meant to be burnt. 3.Silence has a voice of its own. Listen to your own silence. 4.A piece of advice from a divorced and a formerly political prisoner: “to be successful, avoid two things: women and politics!” 5.A semi-colon is the middle finger in a sentence when writing fiction. 6.Be sadist when you write. Good things come out of your character only when bad things happen to them. 7.A comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy in life, you will only find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. 8.No expectations. Just instincts. 9.Undergraduate degrees of creative writing are rubbish. They are vehicles of producing mass ignorance. Because if undergraduates want to become writers, they have to spend their twenties reading excessively first. 10.Every time you get rejected by a publisher, be thankful. It is a boost for your ego to keep going forward. It is a second chance to reflect, write, and edit. It is a rebirth. It is similar to being given the question-sheet in an exam to revisit your answers before you submit your paper. 11.You are fake and hypocritical when you write for fame or political purpose. These are exterior. Honest and free writing is interior: that is when you write for yourself. 12.Mark things in green. It is the colour of grace, hope and nature. Red is bloody and fascist. 13.Reason, not need. - King Lear 14.Your body is roughly 72 per cent water. Keep hydrated. 15.Read alone. Write alone. Eat accompanied. 16.Do not drive all the time. Cycle when possible. 17.More radio. Less TV. 18.Read more. Write less. Writing comes later. 19.Sing to a mirror. 20.Re-paint your walls. 21.Read an article or summarise a short story a day. 22.Learn a new word a day too. 23.Become drunk with poetry. 24.Watch foreign films. 25.Buy mother a piece of jewellery with first salary. 26.Publish a book before you are 30. 27.Practice poetry. For fun. 28.Have a tattoo you will regret. 29.Put that bloody mobile phone down! Do not become a machine driven by machines! 30.Speak less. Listen more.

– Akram Al Deek

added by anonymous
5 years ago

In my twenties, it all hit so fast and so big that it was a little overwhelming — wonderful, obviously, and I’m very grateful for it. But it got to a level also where the kinds of things that I was being offered were not the kinds of things I want to do, i was constantly being offered horror films, because I was known for horror films. Or bad romantic comedies. I just wasn’t interested in the scripts and I was feeling a bit unhappy with the things that were coming to me. And I was feeling a little bored with the whole thing. I thought, ‘I want a change.’ So, I moved to London.

– Dwayne Johnson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It’s quite likely that many of those who reported drinking regularly during their late teens went on to continue or escalate that habit throughout their adult life, in an ideal world, parents would both try to delay alcohol initiation until the late teens or early twenties and also try teach their kids to drink moderately and responsibly.

– Rick Grucza

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I wanted a baby three years ago, spencer was a little hesitant. Then one thing after another came up. We had work obligations, like ‘ Celebrity Big Brother ’ in the U.K., which I did not want to be pregnant for. I ’m actually really thankful we waited. I thought I was ready in my twenties, but with everything we had going on, it just would n’t have been a good situation for us. Pratt added.

– Heidi Montag

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When I started, the people using steroids were almost exclusively men in their twenties and thirties, but what we see now is that more and more young boys and girls are interested, it has to do with the fixation with body image, the desire to look good...

– Morten Heierdal of Anti-Doping Norway

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sadly, we lost this generation due to the bailouts. The generation of people in their twenties today, young people, young scientists go abroad, unfortunately.

– Alexis Tsipras

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We talked about our careers and the things girls in their mid-twenties talk about, it was so normal it almost seems fake.

– Katy Summerlin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working.

– Michael Bivona

added by JP03
8 years ago

They are in their late twenties or thirties so it's very much new wealth, and they will be looking towards luxury as a means of showing status and success.

– Fflur Roberts

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is definitely higher than 12 percent, perhaps around the late teens or even the lows twenties, but that is a guess based on anecdotal evidence.

– Simon Talbot

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're now in a position where most people in their first or second jobs, in their early to late twenties can't even afford to rent a studio flat or one-bedroom flat.

– Reza Merchant

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sometimes people will decide that I have written this book about my wild behavior in my twenties and Reese is America's sweetheart and they want to put us in opposition to each other, and we laugh about that.

– Cheryl Strayed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

– John Berger

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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