Fifty Quotes
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
William Golding
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams
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You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
David Bowie
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...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
William Franklin Beedle Jr.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. Hunt
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
William Feather
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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
Robert Frost
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
Daniel Libeskind
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
Ernest Hemingway
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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
Adolf Galland
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I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.
Waldo Miller Salt
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There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
Santiago Durango Big Black
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
William Greider
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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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Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
Dakota Johnson
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
William Shakespeare
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
Wislawa Szymborska
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I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
Hedy Lamarr
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Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
A. A. Milne