Fifth Quotes

• One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

  Robert Kennedy

  Time, People, Political

  Speech at University of Pennsylvania, 6 May 1964, in Philadelphia Inquirer 7 May 1964

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• On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

  Victoria Abril

  Dancing, Film

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• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  Ann Druyan

  Children, Night, Want

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• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  Sam Levenson

  Happy Birthday, Son, Hands

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Ignorance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

  Elton Gallegly

  Taken, Guarantees That, Use

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• I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Graduation, Jealousy

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• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Symphony, Sublime

  Howards End (1910) ch. 5

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• Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

  Tina Fey

  Laughing, People, Trying

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

  Anthony Weiner

  Cutting, Years, Cities

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• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  Fiona Apple

  Sarcastic, Way, Fifth Grade

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

  John Mica

  Friday, Two, Eight

  "TSA bogged down in bureaucracy" by John Mica, www.politico.com. June 28, 2010.

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• Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sadness, Forever, Doe

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• There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Science, Men

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)

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• ...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wanted

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• All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

  Paulo Coelho

  Battle, Teach, Loses

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 24, 2014

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• Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

  Bruce Willis

  Two, Looks, Language

  "Fictional character: Korben Dallas". "The Fifth Element", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

  Leonard Maltin

  Kids, Independent, Class

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• The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Army, Feelings, Soldier

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• The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

  Michael Kinsley

  Fifth Amendment, Protection, Amendments

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• We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

  S. R. Nathan

  Children, School, Leader

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• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  Aaron Spelling

  Patience, Thinking, Years

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• One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

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