Fifty Quotes
803 quotes by 671 authors
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a…
— Marilyn Monroe
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find -…
— Agatha Christie
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Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.
— Hale Irwin
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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they…
— Germaine Greer
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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed…
— Alexander Herzen
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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
— Harry Caray
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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school…
— Jacob Bronowski
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died…
— G. H. Hardy
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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
— Ben Affleck
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[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that…
— Max Weber
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Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to…
— Bruce Willis
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I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies.…
— Isabel Allende
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After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again…
— Andy Behrman
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When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
— Donald Ray Pollock
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat…
— Vanessa Bayer
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My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since…
— Kevin Connolly
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous…
— Lamar Alexander
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The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who…
— Chuck Schumer
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