Fifty Quotes - Page 11

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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

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• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Ambition

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• Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Giving, Give Me

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Breathing

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• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Meaningful, Children, Book

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• At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Faces, Thrive

  Notebook, 17 Apr. 1949. These were Orwell's last words in his notebook. He died on 21 Jan. 1950, at the age of forty-six.

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• I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

  Gordon Parks

  Cameras, Dollars, Firsts

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• I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Want

  "E=MO²". Comedy Album, 1985.

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• Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Space

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• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Giving Up

  "The Business of Baseball". p. 61. Book by Albert Theodore Powers, 2003.

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• The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

  Ben Stein

  Average, Years, Numbers

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• The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

  Stendhal

  Distance, Years, Eyebrows

  Stendhal “The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century”, Curated Classics

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• What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Age, Twenties

  "The Educated Citizen". Adlai E. Stevenson's Commencement Address at Princeton University, infoshare1.princeton.edu. March 22, 1954.

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• If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Feet, Long

  "Kristen Stewart Interview Twilight". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 9, 2008.

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• Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Names, Church

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

  James Surowiecki

  Book, Technology, Space

  "Feature Presentation". www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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• The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

  James Surowiecki

  Opportunity, Apples, Google

  "Groupon Clipping". www.newyorker.com. December 20 & 27, 2010.

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• Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Dance, New York

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• The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

  Ted Turner

  War, Fighting, Years

  "GQ Icon: Ted Turner". Interview with Wil S. Hylton, www.gq.com. September 20, 2007.

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• Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Politics

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• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Years, Rely Upon

  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

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• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  David Wilkerson

  Crush, Pain, Godly

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• Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

  Thom Yorke

  War, Reading, Thinking

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• 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

  Motivational, Learning, Humility

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• Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Believe, Inspiration

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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