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• Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

  Shakira

  Kids, World, Hungry

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

  Paul Bettany

  Average, Cities, Nyc

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.

  Dan Harmon

  Caring, College, Study Group

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

  Al Gore

  Men, Pigs, Bears

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• If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Animal, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.93, Penguin

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• Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Years, Judgement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.334, Modern Library

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• If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Want, Firsts, Something New

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• The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Government, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Mean, Years

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• If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is

  Mark Hateley

  Two, Goal, Giving

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• In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Quality

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  Aloysius Martinich

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Grammar

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• Every man at three years old is half his height

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Years, Height

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 149

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• A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Unique, Two, Care

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

  Robert Ludlum

  Love You, People, Theatre

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• Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Library, Saint

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.209, Ravenio Books

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• The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Land, Rights

  "On Israel, the US and Turkey". Interview with Sabahattin Atas, chomsky.info. September, 2003.

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Drama, Spring

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• We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Soul, Done, Winner

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, David C Cook

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• There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Thrill, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Mean, Waiting, Doe

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I flew over to Birmingham and did half a dozen scenes or so as a pastor in the film. I had a great time. I look forward to seeing the final version. I also am good friends with the Erwin Brothers who are co-directing and producing the film with Kevin. They also helped with Courageous. It's kind of a small little family in this arena and we love helping each other out.

  Alex Kendrick

  Brother, Good Friend, Finals

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

  Adam McKay

  Yawning, Two, Three

  "'The first cut was was four hours' - inside the 'Anchorman 2' editing room with director Adam McKay". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. November 25, 2013.

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• My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Sports, Kids, Order

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