Quotes with fifty-five

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  • Barry Sanders According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Patrick Kavanagh Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bill Murray All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Casey Stengel All you have to do is keep the five players who hate your guts away from the five who are undecided.
    The Guardian Book of Sports Quotes, ed. John Samuel (1985)
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Bill Gross Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Adolf Galland And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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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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  • Edgar R. Fiedler Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations… six if one went to Harvard.
    Edgar R. Fiedler
    American economist and politician (1929 - 2003)
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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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  • Bill Mumy Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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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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  • Anthony Holden But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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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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