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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. -- Ralph Nader
I've been married over 50 years of my life. -- T. Boone Pickens
I had a lot of jobs. I worked over 50 jobs before I rapped for a living. -- Joseph Bruce
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people. -- Larry King
I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself. -- Brett Ratner
One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever. -- David Sills
As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. -- Steve Israel
Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious. -- Curtis Jackson
The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four. -- Alfonso Cuaron
If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy. -- Emo Philips
I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together. -- Channing Tatum
I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. -- John Major
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. -- Nadia Boulanger
People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making. -- Jack LaLanne
Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend. -- Yolanda Adams
It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years. -- Jim Talent
Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?" -- Jacob Needleman
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement! -- Amber Rose
Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion. -- Stella McCartney
I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.' -- Henry Rollins
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system. -- Bernie Sanders
The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?' -- Arthur Ashe
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government? -- Walter E. Williams
Women are over 50 percent of the population. -- Natalie Dormer
Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. -- Keith Henson
With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history. -- Chuck D
All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire -- Grace Slick
Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked. -- Julie Gerberding
If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about. -- Harry Reid
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing. -- David Eagleman
Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain. -- King Felipe VI
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. -- John Pople
I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years. -- Bruce Springsteen
What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet. -- David Attenborough
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America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. -- Al Gore
People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on. -- Ludacris
I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. -- Henry Rollins
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America. -- Bernie Sanders
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. -- Henry Ford
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920. -- Peter Diamandis
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30. -- Berkeley Breathed
I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar. -- Angela Bassett
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded -- Marc Andreessen
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When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years. -- Justin Theroux
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. -- Marc Andreessen
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh. -- Eddie Murphy
Have you seen the Vatican wall? It's over 50-feet high. It's over 50-feet high. It's not even the kind of wall Trump's talking about building. -- Rush Limbaugh
I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21. -- Paul Weller
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air. -- Billy Bob Thornton
Have you seen the Vatican wall? It's over 50-feet high. It's over 50-feet high. It's not even the kind of wall Trump's talking about building. -- Rush Limbaugh
...warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases... -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk. -- Sally Field
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives? -- Gail Sheehy
I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, (but) I just don't care to leave home. -- Fats Domino
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If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again. -- Phil Angelides
There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn. -- Peter Agre
One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy. -- Lesley Manville
Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening. -- Andre Vltchek
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community. -- Rick Larsen
Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it. -- Davy Jones
I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases. -- Rudy Giuliani
I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years. -- Roy Haylock
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me. -- Donald Sutherland
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. -- Richard Rogers

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