Quotes with fifty-five

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  • Carl Sagan It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Warren Buffett It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • H. Ross Perot It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Brooks Atkinson It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carol Bellamy It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ben Simmons It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10'' and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Betty Buckley It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out,
    Packing up our bags, maybe heading south.
    I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
    Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around,
    This is your hometown.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) My Hometown
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Big Pun Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Vaughan Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Billie Jean King Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Mark Twain Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry White Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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