Half Quotes - Page 26

• Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Jobs, Successful, Years

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• I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!

  Petula Clark

  Song, Congratulations, Hard Work

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• I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Native American, Thinking, White

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• I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

  Eric Gagne

  Real, Giving, Emotion

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• An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

  Dick Cavett

  Damage, Hours, Minutes

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.81, Henry Holt and Company

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• We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school.

  Harry Redknapp

  Sports, Morning, School

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• I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

  Kevin Keegan

  Wall, Moles, Half Time

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• I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Stupid, Winning

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• I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

  Andre Dirrell

  Halloween, Holiday, Winter

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• I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

  Josephine Baker

  Morning, Skins, Body

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• I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.

  Michael Pollan

  Sports, Nice, Thinking

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• I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

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• An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Eclipse Of The Sun, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Taken, Heart

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• Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Commitment, Years, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.

  Jeff Vespa

  Dream, Crazy, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Two, Sitting, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.

  Justin Theroux

  New York, Adventure, Shoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Girl, Needs, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Father, Eight, Judging

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• I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

  Jeb Bush

  Issues, Dollars, Needs

  "Jeb Bush's Planned Parenthood jab backfires" By Eric Bradner, Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Alive

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• Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't

  Catherine Cox

  Team, Games, Way

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• I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Space, Views

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• There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Clothes, Doctors

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