Fifty Quotes - Page 3

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Giving, Aviation, Flight

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• One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

  Trevor Howard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

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• There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact. Every person in the world, no matter what size, shape, or form they are, deserves respect and love. But that doesn't mean we are supposed to pretend that something is healthy when in fact it is not.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Heart, Healthy

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

  Stephen King

  Morning, Jobs, Fun

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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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• I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I have to die at fifty? My Dad ate all the junk food, he wouldn't exercise - how can you tell your Dad anything? We know about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape - it's ridiculous!

  Jack LaLanne

  Dad, Believe, Tired

  Source: aliveeastbay.com

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• I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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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• Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Writing, Character

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• You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

  Alexander McQueen

  Mistake, Twenties, Seven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Unbroken, Possibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.87, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• 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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• You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

  Agnes Varda

  Four, Too Much, Nervous

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

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• Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Book, Humor

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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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• There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Years, Giving, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thoughtful, Numbers, Age

  Source: the-talks.com

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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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• For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mother, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to bother you. You can relax. You know what? I like the end of the world.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Mean, Years, Lovely

  Thomas M. Disch (1972). “334”

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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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• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hitting, Shoulders

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

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