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SOPHIA LOREN I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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JOHN CHEEVER Fifty percent of the people who come in here early January won't continue throughout the year.
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BEN ROGERS Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Fifty percent of the electricity generated in Texas is dependent on natural gas.
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LAUREN BACALL My people are voting for change. Fifty-two percent of people agree that it is time for a change.
BORRIS MILES Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still rem...
ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN Fifty-four percent more companies are looking at this region today than 14 months ago,
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WILLIAM PETERSEN Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whateve...
ROBERT BALLARD It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
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AL MCGUIRE Fifty-six percent of the audience was under 25 with 58 percent male, ... substantially above average...
JIM THARP The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went ...
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UNKNOWN Energy is important to Americans. Fifty years ago, America was an exporter of oil. A lot has changed...
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BILL COSBY And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south tw...
BIBLE Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we&...
PERCY JULIAN Fifty percent of the world's population now lives in cities, those are the people who need this, ......
DEAN KAMEN Fifty-four percent of hiring managers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com say they will increase their sta...
MATT FERGUSON For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, compri...
NORMAN BORLAUG They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were h...
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EDGAR WATSON HOWE By the age of fifty, people are cooked.
BRUCE CARLSON Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
ROBERT FROST There are 28 million people that went to work this morning who make less than the poverty level, ......
BRUCE RAYNOR I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and ki...
KATE BOSWORTH 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 Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail...
TOBY KEITH I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spo...
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WALTER DEAN MYERS For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
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GORE VIDAL I’ve killed fifty-two people. But really all I want is to get my hands on her. I’d be happy with...
SALLY GREEN God, I’m a lucky son of a bitch.” - Christian Grey
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ANN COULTER There was little in it then and we have improved in the last year, ... It looks fifty-fifty but we'r...
GUUS HIDDINK People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN There is no change in the difficult situation, but people are saying there is a fifty-fifty chance o...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI and tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chas...
COLDPLAY Fifty percent of it is strength and the other 50 percent is mental. Later in the season it becomes e...
ADAM BRINK Regression lives on, not because of the unavailability of a better option but because of the inertia...
EVERSKEPTIC Love is for fools, Christian.
E.L. JAMES They're at about a fifty-fifty market share right now and the market share would change dramatically...
AMIT HAZAN Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him."
Oh no... why?
"I'm not sure that's a good idea." E.L. JAMES Fifty-four forty, or fight.
WILLIAM ALLEN I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about w...
ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
MARY E. PEARSON I'm fifty-six and still a Virgo
LIZ CARPENTER And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty ...
BIBLE I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.
JULIUS SCHWARTZ From his inside jacket pocket he produces a ring and gazes up at me, his eyes bright gray and raw, f...
E.L. JAMES This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. HUNT This is what fifty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?
GLORIA STEINEM But I'm a selfish man. I've wanted you since you fell into my office. You are exquisite, honest, war...
E.L. JAMES There's something about you Anastasia, that calls to me on some deep level I don't understand. It's ...
E.L. JAMES I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetua...
E.L. JAMES running a successful company is all about embracing the talent of the individuals you have at your d...
E.L. JAMES You can't fathom why some people behave the way they do
E.L. JAMES I need to walk before I can run
E.L. JAMES You're like a freight train, and I don't want to get railroaded because the girl you fell in love wi...
E.L. JAMES -Prometo solemnemente que te protegeré y que valoraré profundamente en mi corazón nuestra unión ...
E.L. JAMES There’s a gun in your desk. It’s fully loaded.”
“How do you know?” His frown deepens....
E.L. JAMES His magic is powerful, intoxicating. I'm a butterfly caught in his net, unable and unwilling to esca...
E.L. JAMES And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and ...
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GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL