Half Quotes
5615 Half quotes by 3611 unique authors
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I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team,…
— Anthony Browne
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With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every…
— Heather Graham Pozzessere
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
— Natalie Dormer
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Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
— Martin Freeman
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A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour…
— Rita Ora
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we…
— E L Konigsburg
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I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I go…
— David Quammen
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We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
— Peter Benchley
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My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.
— Unknown Author
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People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose…
— Rohit Shetty
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My genetic interests persist in the area of the control of human development. Something must be fundamentally flawed with a reproductive system that allows only…
— Robert Edwards
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If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.
— Dorothy Atkinson
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World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their…
— Donella Meadows
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The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
— Luise Rainer
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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at…
— Peter Diamandis
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The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
— Elizabeth Warren
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I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to…
— Michael Keaton
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When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
— Josh Kopelman
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More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
— William E. Conway, Jr.
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The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created…
— Steven Sinofsky
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Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for…
— Tadashi Yanai
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My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was…
— Susanne Bier
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My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she…
— Blake Lively
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I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all…
— Martin Seligman
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I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.
— Robin Wright
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