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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.
What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.
Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.
Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.
I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.
If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
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.
SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.