#fifty

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. ↗

— Al McGuire

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I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it. ↗

— Mark McGwire

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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. ↗

— George Montgomery

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The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

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When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

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Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. ↗

— Dennis Muren

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I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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