Fifty Quotes
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
— Tana French
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Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.
— Carl Perkins
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You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all…
— John Prine
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Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years…
— C. Everett Koop
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Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
— Frank Zappa
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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
— Tom Petty
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Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.
— Bruce Springsteen
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
— Paul Simon
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I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.
— Michael Flatley
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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make…
— Townsend Harris
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I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone…
— Carrie Ann Inaba
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My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin'…
— Jon Stewart
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We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create…
— Lindsey Graham
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty,…
— Joan Didion
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A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
— Edwin M. Stanton
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It's Fifty, not Fiddy.
— Curtis Jackson
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
— H. L. Mencken
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No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing…
— Carrie P Snow
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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than…
— Winston Churchill
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If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above,…
— Julia Child
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