Fifty Quotes - Page 10

• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Giving, Community, Troops

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• Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Police, Borders

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• The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

  Herman Cain

  Class, People, Giving

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• I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

  Cher

  Years, Forever, Floating

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• Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

  Red Cloud

  Years, World, Goods

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• I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

  Christopher Columbus

  Discovery, Years, Desire

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54

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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

  Roger Daltrey

  Rocks, Good Times, Having A Good Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Twenties, Talent

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• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Average, Time Management, Workers

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• I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Loyalty, Efficiency, Hundred

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• One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

  Maxim Gorky

  Girl, Math, Science

  "The Zykovs". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1914.

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• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

  Salma Hayek

  Envy, Thank God, Looks

  "Salma Hayek Supports Madonna’s Controversial Tour Style" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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• The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  People, Population, Half

  "Shakespeare had no BlackBerry and Aristotle mananged without an iPhone" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Thinking, Age, Aging

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, Talking, People

  Autobiography (1821)

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• What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Hate, Voice, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, War, Years

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• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

  Stephen Leacock

  Motivational, Teamwork, Years

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• Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

  Al Lewis

  Friday, Sunset, Kids

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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Adventure, Usa

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Cnn

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Country, Silly

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• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, May, Way

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