Other Half Quotes - Page 9

• Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

  J. Christopher Burch

  Knowing, Battle, Half

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• Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.

  Noah Hawley

  Talking, People, Half

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of Fargo, Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting Cat's Cradle". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving Up, Thinking, Two

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• Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.

  Steve Erickson

  Country, Believe, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

  Zadie Smith

  Sublime, Balance, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!

  Jenny Mollen

  Dad, Ex Boyfriend, Twenties

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

  Tao Lin

  Half, Entertainment, Comedy

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• I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.

  Antonio Machado

  Views, Your Side, Looks

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.147, Wesleyan University Press

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• Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

  Mickey Rivers

  Funny, Basketball, Stupid

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• We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Half, Made

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.440, A&C Black

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• There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Plato, Two, Forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.378, Macmillan

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• He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Order, Battle

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• But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Understanding, Together

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• I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Break Up, Breakup, Taken

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• The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

  Michelle Tea

  Thinking, Two, Knowing

  Michelle Tea (1998). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext(e)

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• Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Growth, Half

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.49, Multnomah

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• Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Women, Order, Class

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ifs And, Feet, Half

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• When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

  David Letterman

  Prayer, People, Half

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• A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

  Ann Landers

  Men, Half, Firsts

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• The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

  Conan O'Brien

  Past, White, Jumping

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• being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Style, Half

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• Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!

  Jay Asher

  Fun, Nice, Party

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Men, Half

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives”, Larson Publication

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• You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Thinking, Half

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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