In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
John C. Calhoun
CountryDebtFiftyAverageRevenue
I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.
Michael Flatley
BelieveYouNewHillOverFifty
I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.
Roger Federer
YouKnowYearsSeeFiftyStay
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
Josiah Strong
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In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.
Chuck Palahniuk
WorkWordsPurposeYouLineFifty
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
Scott Cook
GoldWealthBankYearsFiftyNotes
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.
Kevin Brockmeier
NewFiftyKeepSeemsBooksDiscover
When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
Erik Satie
I AmYouYoungSeeFiftySeen
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Charles Caleb Colton
TimeStopFiftyBeingAdolescent
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
Red Cloud
LiveWorldDieYouFortyFifty
We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
Adolf Galland
MoreNeverFiftyOutUsedFighters
I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.
Ben Dolnick
LoveMePageFiftyWithinRoom
I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Rachel Nichols
TimeSilenceSixtyFiftySeenLike
I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
Dakota Johnson
MoviesShadesTwoNextFifty
Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
Andrea Mitchell
JobMeManagementWeekFiftyOut
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock
WorkDayCreativeNeverYearsFifty
Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
Mary E. Pearson
FutureHopeWomanPresidentFifty
'Fifty Shades' opened the door and made it easier to write about any issue that's controversial. It has helped other authors talk honestly.
Jay Asher
DoorTalkWriteShadesFiftyMade
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Bret Easton Ellis
GreatChristianGreyShadesFifty
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.
Marie Dressler
TimeFiftyHardestLessonsHitOur
I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.
Julie Kenner
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
George Stigler
WorkPeopleLanguageOpinionsFifty
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
Bill Condon
WomenThinkGayMovementLineFifty
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
Nelson A. Miles
SuccessPastManagementFiftyAsking
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