50th Birthday Quotes - Page 6

• I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  Billy Joel

  Birthday, Insecurity, Age

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• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, Age

  Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Age

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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• The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

  Eminem

  Birthday, Kids, Age

  "Being Eminem". Interview with Anthony Bozza, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2009.

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• I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

  Jewel

  Integrity, People, Brave

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• You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Birthday, Sympathy, Age

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• I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

  Liam Neeson

  Birthday, Water, Swim

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• In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

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• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Birthday, Yellow, People

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Age And Youth

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.

  Dar Williams

  Couple, Blow, Half

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

  James Caan

  Birthday, Beautiful, Girl

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

  Ogden Nash

  Birthday, Age, Berries

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• At 50, you probably get muddled?
  I'm the same, that's how I know?
  If you ever get lost, don't worry?
  Just change where you want to go

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Worry, Age

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• Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

  Christopher Titus

  Uncles, Party, Men

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

  Red Skelton

  Birthday, Mind, Age

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• I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

  Betty Dodson

  Birthday, Exercise, Vegetables

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• I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

  Bob Geldof

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

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• Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

  Richard Armour

  Birthday, People, Age

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• By Time and Age full many things are taught.

  Aeschylus

  Birthday, Age, Taught

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, Four

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• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  Ang Lee

  Birthday, Memories, Years

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• Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Birthday, Voice, Age

  "Aung San Suu Kyi criticises Burmese election irregularities" by Esmer Golluoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

  Sienna Miller

  Birthday, Running, Dark

  "Actress Sienna Miller Says She Was Left 'Paranoid' by Media Abuse". Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. November 24, 2011.

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

  J. B. Priestley

  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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