Albert Einstein
Physicist
"If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution."
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Matsuo Basho
Poet
"The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of."
Mamie Eisenhower
First Lady of the United States
"Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire."
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"Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control."
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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
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"Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents."
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"This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing."
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"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else"
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"I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap."
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"not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo."
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"I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it."
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"All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty."
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"Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover."
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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."
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"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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"I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing."
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"When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them."
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"My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves."
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"It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is."
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"I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred."
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"What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?"
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"You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy."
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"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect."
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