Fifty Quotes - Page 3

• I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Years

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• In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiration, Technology, Men

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". TheCelebrityCafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.

  John Waters

  Mean, Years, Seems

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

  Agnes Varda

  Years, Ideas, Important

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Character, Writing

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• Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Giving, Aviation, Flight

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• So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.

  Frank Nugent

  Dog, Dirty, Book

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• If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

  Kevin Costner

  Years, Stills, Ifs

  "Why Kevin Costner Paid for ‘Black or White’ (New Trailer, Sneak Preview Q & A)". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 3, 2014.

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• Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.

  Ali Sina

  Mean, Gay, Color

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Years, Work Out

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• Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, India, Lasts

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• When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.

  Peter Stormare

  Character, Dark, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

  Philip Yancey

  Years, Oil, Aquifers

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• Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
  should nature keep me alive,
  if I find the world so bitter
  when I am but twenty-five?

  Alfred the Great

  Nature, Twenties, Alive

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• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Army

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• I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

  Jimmy Carter

  Loyalty, Tired, Night

  Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales

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• The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Math, Years

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• From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Heart, Men, Age

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• If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Feel Better, Order

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• Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.

  Bobby Heenan

  Mouths, Pounds, Crackers

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• The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.

  Robert Kenner

  Real, Cancer, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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