Half Quotes - Page 31

• My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Children, Father

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

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• Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

  Neil Kinnock

  Truth, Two, Wit

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• President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

  Paula Poundstone

  Country, Hate, Blow

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Responsibility, Evil, Age

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• If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2012

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• I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

  Jackie Mason

  Italian, Stealing, Wholesale

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• With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Would Be, Done

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• My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I'd say I'm a complete boy plus half a girl. I don't seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don't.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Gay, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

  Julian Barnes

  Life Is, Defeat, Buried

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• I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Cutting, Blow

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• Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Lying, Battle

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• I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

  Dane Cook

  Self Worth, Stories, Individual

  Twitter post from Jun 9, 2013

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• I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

  Dane Cook

  Discovery, Tonight, Television

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• Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

  Ron Atkinson

  Wings, Likes, England

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

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• They've come out at half time and gone bang.

  Ron Atkinson

  Bangs, Gone, Half Time

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

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• Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

  Ryan Giggs

  Color, Black, Culture

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• The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! 
  (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

  Alan Hansen

  Scotland, Denmark, England

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• I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

  Claes Oldenburg

  New York, Years, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Ideas, People, Creative

  "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California`s water. Scientists say the state is at its driest point in half a millennium and as any Californians will tell you, it is not just their problem, it`s everyone`s problem.

  Chris Hayes

  California, Long, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons or high boots. You know that at this very hour half the nation does the same thing, which gives you, with the benefit of hindsight, a satisfaction in doing those things, too, a knowledge, a sense of the nation. I was a city boy until then.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Cities, Exhilarating Feeling

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it's so fun to be able to act out her words.

  Angie Harmon

  Fun, Character, Play

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

  Michael Botticelli

  Epidemics, Alcohol, Drug

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.

  Maggie Q

  People, Teeth, Asian

  Source: collider.com

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