Fifth Quotes - Page 2

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

  Victoria Abril

  Dancing, Film

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

  Peter Lynch

  Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Wanted

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• Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Believe, Two, Down And

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.

  Phil Jones

  Assessment, Over You, Energy

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• Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Thinking, Clothes

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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