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• Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Reading, People

  "Fictional character: David Brent". TV Series "The Office", 2001-2003.

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• ...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

  Mark M. Ford

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Want

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• Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If you view flowers in full bloom and drink to drunkenness, it becomes a bad experience. Those who are living to the full should think about this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fun, Flower, Wine

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• We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Men, Thinking, Capability

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• We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

  Jeff Merkley

  Party, Winning, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

  Ted Cruz

  Years, Land, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and drift, as you work out solutions to each problem as they come up.

  Duncan Jones

  Years, Work Out, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Secret, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Clouds, Dust, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have been putting the lives of our troops on the line, we have taken huge losses and the Europeans cut the budget? If money is more important than the lives of our children, what else is this than the usual arrogance and superficiality? And where is all this terror coming from? It is a result of mistakes the West committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s, when they armed the Islamic rebels against the Soviet troops.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Children, Mistake, Taken

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Daughter, Son, Men

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.

  John Shelby Spong

  Hands, Government, Interesting

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

  Karen Abbott

  Cousin, Simple, Thinking

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Desire, Want

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.

  Herman Cain

  People, Tape, Pieces

  "Herman Cain Exclusive: Tells Brody File He Will Support Constitutional Amendments on Life and Marriage". Interview with David Brody, www1.cbn.com. October 22, 2011.

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• There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

  Joe Manganiello

  Two, Littles, Tiny

  "Joe Manganiello is ready for your Pee-wee Herman slash fic". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. March 23, 2016.

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• Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Animal, America, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Because of my two films - one was about my half-sister (Kati with an I) and the next one featured my cousin (Fake It So Real) - I was hesitant to start with someone so close.

  Robert Greene

  Cousin, Real, Two

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

  Paul Haggis

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Daily Life, Surroundings, Entertaining

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

  Ladyhawke

  Thinking, Empty Rooms, What If

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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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, Loud

  "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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• A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.

  Noah Hawley

  Book, Imagination, Mind

  "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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