#forty

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career. ↗

— Mike Royko

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My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. ↗

— Duke Snider

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I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers. ↗

— Sharon Stone

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

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When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. ↗

— Leon Blum

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Life begins at forty. ↗

— Walter B. Pitkin

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Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you. ↗

— Kevin Barry

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