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• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  Karen Walton

  Drama, Writing, Doors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

  Wendell Pierce

  Country, People, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

  Christian Rudder

  Thinking, Thumbs Up, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Hats, Wells, Claudia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the Union of Concerned Scientists put out this statement which was signed by more than half of all the Nobel laureates in science and another 1,500 distinguished scientists.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Community, Attention, Unions

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared to saving the creation. I'd much rather have half of the people in the country be creationists and work really hard to save the creation than have everybody be evolutionists and be destroying the planet.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Teaching, School

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.

  Amanda Ripley

  Military, Destiny, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play in a band. I would always have liked to be a substantial writer, to write country music for big singers. I had all sorts of proclivities, but I never had any big success.

  Chuck Barris

  Country, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Medical Problems, People, Citing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

  Paul Achleitner

  America, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Believe, Simple

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

  Richard Branson

  Glasses, Empty, Type

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Aug 03, 2015

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• Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

  Alan Bock

  Cutting, Hemp, World

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• I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

  Alex Mack

  Years, Space, Needs

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• The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

  Mark Millar

  Glasses, Air, Liquid

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• If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.

  Trisha

  Video, Looks, Online

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• For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Book, Reading, Sunset

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• I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

  Coco Austin

  Focus, Done, Hips

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

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• I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

  Bonnie Langford

  Weight, Tiny, Inches

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• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Class, Long, Care

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.73, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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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, World, Care

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• Pardon me for finding the glass half full.

  Rupert Giles

  Glasses, Pardon, Findings

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