Fifty Quotes
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
— William Ralph Inge
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use…
— Jon Bon Jovi
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There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America…
— Frank B. Kellogg
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's…
— Stephen Leacock
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Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner.…
— Al Lewis
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
— Walter Lippmann
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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half…
— Al McGuire
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
— H. L. Mencken
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?'…
— Marilyn Monroe
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Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
— Dwight L. Moody
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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in…
— Alanis Morissette
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a…
— Walter Dean Myers
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
— George Orwell
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I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
— Gordon Parks
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I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought:…
— Emo Philips
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Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri…
— Burt Rutan
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand…
— Babe Ruth
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