Quotes with fifty-fifty

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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Knute Rockne One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • William E. Vaughan A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Stephen Bayley As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Camille Pissarro At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Alanis Morissette 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 my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Candice Bergen But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Marie Dressler By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Gore Vidal Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Brad Holland Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Brooks Robinson Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
    Source: Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983)
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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