Other Half Quotes - Page 2

• Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

  Anne Cameron

  Self, Half

  Anne Cameron (2002). “Daughters of Copper Woman”, Harbour Publishing Company

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• Half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half 
of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises

  FKA twigs

  Thinking, People, Half

  "FKA twigs: future shock" by Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. June 19, 2014.

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• My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

  Francesco Clemente

  Portraits, Half, Painting

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• The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Sports, Skills, Half

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• Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

  Faith Prince

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

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• It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Done, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

  Pete Seeger

  Guitar, Play, Tunes

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• Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Half, World

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• I want people to just be paying attention even if they're not necessarily laughing at something, or if it takes them a while to get something, I don't mind that. If half the crowd gets the joke and the other half is sitting there scratching their heads, that's just as good for me if I like the joke, because I feel like it just brings people in more.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  People, Laughing, Mind

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Lazy, Generations

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

  Bill Murray

  Years, People, Half

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• I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

  Jilly Cooper

  Simple, Secret, Different

  "My favourite table". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

  Edward Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.

  Rick Warren

  Zero, America, Doe

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 26, 2011

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• By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hate, Book, Writing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

  Sally Wentworth

  People, Half, World

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• Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Men, Wife, Half

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.174, Macmillan

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• When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Regret, Romantic Love, Simple

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• It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Lust, Half

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• I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.

  Steve Sabol

  Artist, Ideas, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Government, Missing, Television

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Society, Half

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• I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Istanbul, Males, Roaches

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  When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Half, Enough

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