Fifty Quotes - Page 22

• When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

  Louis Armstrong

  Giving, Tunes, Dollars

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• What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?

  William J. Clinton

  Men

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• Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mother, Dad, Love You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Taken, Eye

  Speech in House of Commons, 28 Jan. 1931

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• Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Crazy, Men, Bushido

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• Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

  Rachel Marsden

  Sleep, People, Want

  "Rachel Marsden’s Weird Career" by Rebecca Traister, thetyee.ca. April 5, 2007.

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• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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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

  Years, Packing, Full Life

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• If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

  Mickey Gilley

  Cutting, Pockets, Albums

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• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Men, Percentages

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• The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

  Stendhal

  Ambition, Men, Years

  Stendhal (2011). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.150, Modern Library

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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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

  Birthday, Age, Tonight

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• After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

  Henry Green

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)

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• Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

  Muhammad Ali

  Birthday, Fighting, Years

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
  brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?

  Polybius

  Mean, Rome, Years

  Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (2012). “The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Happens, Knows

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• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Cheer, Order

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• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

  Margery Allingham

  Lying, Writing, Eight

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

  Ian Fleming

  Moving, Hero, Fighting

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

  Brooks Robinson

  Book, Years, Three

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• You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.

  Hank Aaron

  Hurt, Years, Games

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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

  Mistake, Believe, Ideas

  Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of

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• When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

  Erik Satie

  People, Waiting, Used

  Erik Satie, Nigel E. Wilkins (1980). “The Writings of Erik Satie”, Da Capo Press

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