Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
Context: It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
“Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.”
Election speech as candidate for Congress, 1949
1949
“It’s easy to say, ‘Develop your individuality’, but it takes 20 to 30 years to achieve it.”
Kakiemon XIII
Source: Modern Kakiemon wares - the dignity of yohaku (blank space) https://brill.com/view/journals/vvak/40/4/article-p22_22.xml Brill Publishers
As quoted in Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management (2005) by Dan Robert Anderson, p. 138
“It's hip to be square. Remember that shitty song by that shitty band 20 motherfuckin' years ago?”
Shut Up, You Fucking Baby
“A new drug takes some 10 to 20 years and around US$1 billion to US$2 billion to develop.”
Li Chia-wei (2020) cited in " WUHAN VIRUS/Use of HIV medication to be investigated as coronavirus treatment https://focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202002050004" on Focus Taiwan, 5 February 2020.
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Context: Remember, there are still many years of struggle ahead, and even when you are a woman, you will have to do your part in the struggle. Meanwhile, you have to prepare yourself, be very revolutionary — which at your age means to learn a lot, as much as possible, and always be ready to support just causes.
“I made those films for 20 years, and after 10 years they ran out of good scripts.”
