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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. Stendhal

Imitate Distance Ways Russians French Always Years Fifty

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books. Walter Dean Myers

Education Home You Son Book Wife Books Percent Share He Takes She Read Around His Child Person Artist Children Place Little Meaningful Fifty Interests Your Your Child Butt Illustrator Dragged Museums

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Wilbur Wright

Man Fly Would Brother Said Years Confess Fifty

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Adlai Stevenson I

Man He Part Know Most Knows Did Fifty Twenty

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

Sports People Training Country Half Doctors Athlete Classes Percent Bottom Academic Know Question Graduated Fifty Why

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. Alanis Morissette

I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it. Alaya Dawn Johnson

People Thinking Vampires Paranormal Some About Percent General Like Makes Reverse Up Just Romances Sixty Romantic Decided Which Then Fifty Reason Shows Creatures Specifically Thing

There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them. Allison Schroeder

You Women People Down Say Those Out Seems Longer Executives Because Hire Hiring Surrounded Get Any Front Getting Just Break Them Rooms Fifty Barriers Many Gatekeepers Pull

I love 'Fifty Shades' and 'Twilight' both. Anna Todd

Love Shades Both Fifty Twilight

My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that? Ansel Elgort

Sad Time Good Home You People Fans Will Picture Every Would About Take Taking Pictures Because Always Go Go Home Being Them Then Really Fifty Should Why Thing

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects. Bernice King

Racism Father Three Poverty Community Believe Our Later Evils Hopes Triple Remain Divided Consuming He Like Because Nonviolence Were Years Effects Antidote Fifty Militarism

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country. Brad Holland

Today People Seen Country Half Every Out Dream Wearing Years Years Ago Sneakers Blue Artist Getting Blue Jeans Fifty Bohemian Jeans

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. Brooks Robinson

Book Three Type Record Years Just Fifty Inches Now

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around. Bruce Willis

Work Best Thought Enough Would Best Work New Come Stick Around Always Years Hang Sixty Fifty Fortunate Hard Forty

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd. Burt Rutan

Travel Technology Dangerous Space Fly First Year Those Though More Only Absurd Were Years Rockets Up Than Ended Expensive Being Space Shuttle After Space Travel Fifty Large Even Now Portions Shuttle

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose. Charles Comiskey

Great First Style Strikes Later Some Only Throw Allowance Had Feet Became Ball Balls Louis St. Louis Any Pitcher Pitchers Six Which While Fifty Chose Bases Four Extent

Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world. Claudia Gray

Technology World Mind Think Waterloo Our Hundred Defines Our World Security Wrap Could Napoleon Around Understood His Years Spy Begin Any Dwight After Eisenhower Warfare Might Fifty Who Even Satellites Fought Now

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky

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