Half Quotes
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The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps
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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.
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Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
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Even half a chance beats none.
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Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.
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I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.
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I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
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I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
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I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
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Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
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Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
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My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
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Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
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Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
