Fifty Quotes

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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty… — Agnes Smedley
Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And… — Gordon Brown
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The… — Tom Peters
My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social,… — Sean Connery
Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me… — Ted Cruz
I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in… — Fannie Flagg
We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And… — Adolf Galland
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old — Maxine Kumin
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese… — Joseph C. Lincoln
You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind… — Laurie Anderson
Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough… — Christina Stead
I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a… — Hal Porter
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not… — Neal Boortz
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard… — John Lanchester
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. — Clifford Stoll
SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION. — Mark Batterson
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent… — Drake

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