Half A Year Quotes

• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Bill Vaughan

  Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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• There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

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• I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

  Katarina Witt

  Teacher, Class, Years

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• It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.

  Terrence Trammell

  Blessed, Athlete, Past

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• I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Baby, Memorable, Years

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• I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.

  Nick Minchin

  Party, Years, Decision

  "Liberal Party Further Divided by ETS Negogiations as Tony Abbott Abandons Malcolm Turnbull's Push for Amendments". www.heraldsun.com.au. November 20, 2009.

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• I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.

  Pete Rose

  Dog, Get Well, Media

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• I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

  Adam Faith

  Writing, Sunday, Years

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• We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, War, Loss

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• I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Writing, Years

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• I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Taken, Athlete

  "Shawn Johnson training for 2012". Interview with Amy Van Deusen, www.espn.com. May 10, 2011.

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• My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

  Adrien Brody

  Dad, Years, Half

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• I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Father, Army, Years

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• I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

  Kayla Ewell

  Distance, Good Friend, Years

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• My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Half

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• Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?

  Traci Bingham

  Thinking, Vegetables, Years

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• I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.

  Gunther Rall

  Years, Skills, Feelings

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• In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.

  Louis P. Benezet

  Education, Children, Years

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• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  Mandy Moore

  School, Years, Catholic

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• But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Government, Years, Two

  "The Business of Government Hour" with Paul Lawrence, www.businessofgovernment.org. August 30, 2003.

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• I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Art, Struggle, Years

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

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• The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Home, Men

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• When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

  Caroline Knapp

  Crush, Passion, Night

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• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Cnn, News

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• I do remember that when we left [Bernard Leach] after two and a half years, we went home on a boat again - this was before air travel became really easy - and Alix [MacKenzie] turned to me and she said, "You know, that was a great two years of training, but that's not the way we're going to run our pottery."

  Warren MacKenzie

  Running, Home, Air

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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