Half Quotes - Page 35

• It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Bed, Vices

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• Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Flames, Two

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• An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Done, World, Assignments

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• Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

  David Limbaugh

  Lying, Half Truth, Deceptive

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• I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

  Simon Bird

  Team, Reality, Alternate Realities

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• To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.' It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear [...] I was involved in the 1994 elections, and I will never forget the arrogance of the Democrats back then, and how they refused to accept the electoral reality facing them. It is no different today.

  Frank Luntz

  Reality, Color, Mad

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• Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

  Adolf Hitler

  Behaviour, American Society, Americanism

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• If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Religious, Stupid, Thinking

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• The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

  Donald Johanson

  People, Today, Six

  "Anthropologist Donald Johanson On 'Lucy's Legacy'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 6, 2009.

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• Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

  Ray Bradbury

  Past, Should Have, Belief

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• I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

  Andrew Wylie

  Book, Hours, Used

  "Andrew Wylie: 'I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Mother, Player

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Stress, Suffering

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

  Kina Grannis

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Islands, Numbers

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Editors, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

  Denis Hayes

  Airplane, Speed, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it's no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Egypt, Iraq, Numbers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.

  Astra Taylor

  Issues, Long Ago, Too Much

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.

  Debra Dean

  Moving, Historical, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!

  Anna Journey

  Always On My Mind, White, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Silly, Play

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• We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

  Bernie Sanders

  Two, Campaigns, Individual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my nightlife photographs were taken, it's rapidly changing. There isn't the same after dark frisson of excitement about the place any more.

  Derek Ridgers

  Taken, Dark, Nightlife

  Source: therumpus.net

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