Turning 50 famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
-- Bjork

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Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Thinking #Turning 50 #Size
Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
-- Dawn French

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When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.
-- Greg Norman

#Turning 50 #Waiting #Said
I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.
-- Marcia Gay Harden

#Stars #Night #Turning 50
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it
-- Victoria Principal

#Turning 50 #Enjoy
Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
-- William J. Clinton

#Turning 50 #Yesterday #Giving

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.
When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.
[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."
I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.
The problem is the policy makers don't have practitioners in the policy team. You won't make an IT policy without consulting a Narayan Murthy or Nandan Nilekani. But for energy, people think they know everything and they know what to do for it. That's how the policies are created in Delhi and that needs to change.
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.