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• I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.

  Jeff Shaara

  New York, Unique, Cities

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• It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

  Greta Garbo

  Paris, Making Love, Midnight

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Ninotchka", 1939.

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• What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hypocrite, Errors, Support

  "Notes on the State of Virginia". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1781-1783.

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• Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.

  Veronica Chambers

  Letting Go, Stars, Loss

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• All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.

  Geena Davis

  Running, Men, Our Society

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• We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Not Good Enough, Half, Educate

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• One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Sweat, Half

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.16

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• Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

  Emmitt Smith

  Complaining, Half, Care

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• Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

  Jaime Hernandez

  Hands, Together, Looks

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• I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

  Michael Buble

  Giving Up, Waiting, Luck

  Song: Haven't Met You Yet, Album: Crazy Love, 2009

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• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  Aaron Yoo

  Business, Moving, Opportunity

  Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. March 26, 2008.

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• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Doe, Routine

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.

  Laura Branigan

  Feelings, Matter, Musician

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• The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

  David Foster Wallace

  Facts, Half, Stills

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• I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

  Tibor Fischer

  Events, Half, Literature

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• Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Men, Doors

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

  Dawn French

  Lying, Writing, Feelings

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• For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!

  Kathy Freston

  Thinking, Eggs, White

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• We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

  Hugh Downs

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving Up, Honor, Half

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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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• Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." Not one of my proudest memories.

  David Ogilvy

  Memories, Half, Mail

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• Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sleep, Thinking, Different

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