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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Knute Rockne

Sports, Tired, Sick

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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

Mohsin Hamid

Book, People, Half

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

Mark Twain

Lying, Boots, Half

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If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.

Debbi Fields

Thinking, Half, Way

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We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

Craig Johnson

Halloween, Holiday, Effort

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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

James Buchan

Years, Tasks, Three

"A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Ayn Rand

People, Half, Way

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.483, Penguin

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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

Lying, People, Library

Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in her frenzy. Little one. She flicked out her tongue and caught him on the hand with its rough tip. He smiled. Then she arched her neck and tried to pull back, but to no avail. What's wrong? I'm stuck. You're... He could not help it;he laughed even though it hurt. The situation was too absurd.

Christopher Paolini

Hurt, Hands, Half

Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1007, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.

Flann O'Brien

Moving, Men, Feet

Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.

E. M. Forster

Aunt, Years, Secret

E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.861, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

H. G. Wells

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

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People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

Liam Neeson

New York, Europe, People

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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

Eddie Van Halen

Song, Stupid, Home

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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Mark Haddon

Zero, Math, Half

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Albert Camus

Believe, Differences, Historical

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Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war.

Vera Nazarian

Country, War, Ocean

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The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

Deb Caletti

Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book.'

Karl Pilkington

Book, Giving, Looks

"The Ricky Gervais Show" podcast (Season 2, Episode 2), March 2006.

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I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

Jason Bateman

Garden, Play, Tree

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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

William Penn

Art, Truth, Lying

William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.35

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Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

F. Matthias Alexander

Home, Half, Way

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For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

Roger Waters

Music, Fun, Cat

Rave UK Magazine, June 1967.

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Never meet trouble half-way.

John Ray

Half, Way, Trouble

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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

Clarence Day

Art, Ideas, Wish

Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.23, 1st World Publishing

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