Other Half Quotes - Page 7

• Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.

  Anne Cameron

  Self, Half

  Anne Cameron (2002). “Daughters of Copper Woman”, Harbour Publishing Company

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• Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

  Faith Prince

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

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• Half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half 
of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises

  FKA twigs

  Thinking, People, Half

  "FKA twigs: future shock" by Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. June 19, 2014.

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• It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Done, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Sports, Skills, Half

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• Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

  Jason Bateman

  Guy, Watches, Half

  "Career Watch: Jason Bateman Gets Down with his ‘Bad’ Self" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

  Francesco Clemente

  Portraits, Half, Painting

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• Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Half, World

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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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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• 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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• I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Lazy, Generations

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Half, Enough

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• I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Istanbul, Males, Roaches

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Society, Half

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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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