#fifteen

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky. ↗

— Ian Hart

#ago #arms #fifteen #gorgeous #got

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#against #around #been #book #came

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame. ↗

— Steve Brown

#comes #fame #fifteen #fifteen minutes #guess

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market. ↗

— Barry Corbin

#fifteen #hollywood #huge #huge market #i

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #been #fifteen #hijackers #i

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#cases #day #days #drill #fifteen

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#effectiveness #fifteen #generation #lasts #only

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had