Fifty Quotes - Page 7

• But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.168, Heinemann

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• Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim.
  And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, Talking, Trying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

  Guy Pearce

  Years, America, Australia

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

  Rod Serling

  People, Cash, Radio

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War.

  Bryan Stevenson

  War, Commitment, Reality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  West Indies, Talking, Years

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.

  Sharon Gannon

  Fishing, Land, Meals

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the tone for the movies [Fifty Shades of Grey] so I felt a little more freedom this time and it probably made it more enjoyable.

  Jamie Dornan

  Littles, Shade, Pressure

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [Laâbi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Agreement, Balance, Portugal

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.

  Ella Baker

  Cousin, Brother, Grandfather

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.

  Urijah Faber

  Wrestling, College, Focus

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• It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.

  Bruce Perens

  Believe, Nuts, Police

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• When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'

  Mairead Corrigan

  Children, Years, Iraq

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• My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church, Millennials, Percent

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

  Lizz Winstead

  Space, Law, Information

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

  Ransom Riggs

  Jobs, Directors, Casting

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• In fact, the bigger the bill, the less likely you are to spend it. If you want to really save money, spend only cash and carry only fifty-dollar bills.

  Jean Chatzky

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Cash

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People think it’s hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, it’s a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!

  Ric Flair

  Night, Thinking, Air

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at least fifty percent of the European population emigrate, either to Russia or China. You would have to have mass starvation. Very simple. That's the price that the Eurozone thinks is well worth paying.

  Michael Hudson

  Simple, Thinking, Pension Plans

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Thinking, Shade

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophy, Years, Discipline

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.

  Emily Barton

  Believe, Taken, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty. You won't ever pitch for the big leagues, for example. But I believe anyone, regardless of age, can write if he or she is willing to do the work, and I'm talking about spending at least an hour or two at it almost every day for five to ten years.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.

  Terry Bozzio

  Sports, Smart, Party

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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