Half Quotes - Page 17

• The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

  Ariel Pink

  Girlfriend, School, Guy

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

  Michael Pena

  Dad, Kids, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

  Alexis Denisof

  Drama, Thinking, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.

  Jeff Fahey

  Play, Feet, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [my manager] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship."

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Children, Character, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• When I sign on to a television show, I have to love that show and character so much, but this [Mistresses] was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Nice, Character, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thinking, Cunning Man

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.65, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Expectations, Age

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• The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.

  Peter Cundill

  All Time Low, Lows, Former

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• When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

  Peter Cundill

  Art, Individual, Form

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• I was relatively buff (before 'Avatar'), because I was working in a tanktop half the time on stage, anyway, but I just went kind of into hyperdrive after that and really worked to beat that old body into shape, to get that carcass where...I didn't want to be looking at it and see anything hanging where it shouldn't be hanging.

  Stephen Lang

  Body, Shapes, Want

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• It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

  Allen West

  Nice, Upset, Would Be

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• Loving one another is half of wisdom.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

  Shawn Amos

  Song, Car, Singing

  “'Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy' & Other Misheard Lyrics" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2009.

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• It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Views, People, Would Be

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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• I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

  Alicia Keys

  Done, World, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Praise, Blasphemy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.291

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• The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hypocrite, Church, Next

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

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• Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

  John Stossel

  Government, Population, Income

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• For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

  George W. Bush

  Japan, America, Alliances

  "Stupidity is not a resignable offense" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2003.

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• I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

  Reggie Watts

  Jobs, Years, Two

  "Reggie Watts Talks High School Drama, Making Money And His Comedy Heroes". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Sound, World

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

  Aristotle

  Children, Eye, Differences

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• "[Lawyers who file class-action securities suits] is not a group you would want to marry into your family. "That said, more than half the time the people being sued by the Lerach firm are guilty of outrageous conduct. The problem is, they don't mind (suing) the other half. They are an equal opportunity litigator."

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Class, People

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