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“In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.”

“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.”

Men Littles Stories Age Space Half Break Cutting Written Football Speech Paper Six Pages Sticks Seven Edges Eight Squares Bubbles Sheets Spy Folds

Author:Ian Rankin

“Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Mind Humans Soul Process Half Cutting Fit Creatures Transformation Casts Butterfly Decay Human Soul Caterpillars Rotting Emblems Deterioration Mythical Creatures Chrysalis

Author:Pat Barker

“A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.”

Men Years Values Half Cutting Stones Difficulty Fellows Block Finest Sculpture Marble Hacks Carrots Owing Half A Year

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.”

Said Past Half Clear Cutting Written Productions Following Decades Instance Tragic Commodity Vocabulary Clear Cutting Spoken English

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”

Funny Sides Dark Half Cutting Empty Lips Glasses Teeth Sarcastic Pessimism Dark Side Cracked Half Empty

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”

States Lines Half Cutting Painting Skins Blind Paint Dozen Furry Charcoal

Author:Andrew Forge

“Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.”

Littles Seems Loses Half Rich Cutting Dust Diamond Verses Crude Polished

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?”

“If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.”

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Author:Nelson Shanks

“Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.”

Ifs Should Belief Grows Common Half Cutting Sea Rivers Grateful Fishes Contrary Boat Lakes Fishing Worms Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'”

Children Helping Goal Half Cutting Violence Week New York Gun Campaigns Chains Landscape Slogans Controversial Schwarzenegger Lasers Helping Children

Author:Jon Stewart

“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Language Half Cutting Couple Limits Music Is Oneself Definitions Peculiar Dictionary Illiterate Avant Garde New Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.”

Half Cutting Conversation Enthusiasm Companion Cynicism Handy

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.”

Trying Half Cutting Fingers Reactions Dumb Injury Hospitals Athletic Cautious Ankles Allergic Really Dumb Allergic Reactions

Author:Mara Wilson

“My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

“In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?”

Ifs Knows World Want Mind Wells I Can Hard Might Running Able Half Break Records Five Cutting Built Train Miles Well Being My Time Genetics World Records

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.”

“When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.”

“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”

People Thinking World Years Wells Two Today Order Names Half Cutting Imagine Hundred Folks Credit Debt Cards Mail Old People Credit Card Puzzling

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.”

Ifs Men Giving Trying Reason Facts Faces Hate Given Parent Half Morning Gone Grace Pieces Cutting Alive Car Mom Shots Wake Up Your Face Splits Crash Hate You Trash Your Mom Another Day Car Crash

Author:Aaron Gillespie

“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...”

“I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"”

Men Way Want Looks Hard Home Humor Would Be Funny Hours Half Cutting Grass Mobile Sneak Repo Man

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.”

Thinking Men Half Cutting Thirds Series Bottom Shirts Proportion Think Of You

Author:Tim Gunn

“The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.”

Firsts Art Two Ideas Might Together Grows Half Pieces Four Cutting Tree Strange Seeds Apples Pears

Author:Yoko Ono

“More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.”

War Today Lost Nations Water Results Half Cutting Products Wall Iraq Ships Thanks Operations Touched Shore Steel Saddam Gross Hussein Imports Superb Flawless Gulf War Cargo Pallets

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.”

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Author:Stanley Tucci

“It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.”

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Author:Lindsay Lohan

“I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.”

People Way Feels Long Care Wish Simple Party Brain Half Opinion Cutting Quiet Very Good Tongue Shy Leaving Me Introverted Half Way

Author:Jack White

“We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.”

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Author:Jay Inslee

“Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.”

Ifs World Has Beens Stills Half Cutting Planets Paper Standing Forests Hemp

Author:Alan Bock

“The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.”

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Author:John Mortimer

“If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!”

Ifs Half Cutting Painting

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.”

People Men Way Home Bigs Today Jobs Christ Church Half Cutting Tasks Corners Excellent Workplace Standing Out Hearted Diligence Diligent Backdrop Church Today Half Hearted

Author:David Jeremiah

“In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.”

“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.”

Way Facts Bigs Faces Half Fire Cutting Wife Credit Debt Cards Pairs Erase Credit Card Scissors Credit Card Debt

Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

“I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.”

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Author:Diana Vreeland

“Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.”

Reason Bigs Pay Half Cutting Members Deserve Raises Congress Corporations Reason Why Bribe Why Me Big Corporations

Author:David Letterman

“The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

“In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.”

People Men Turns Half Cutting Feet He Man Survival Wave Oil Hurricanes Uncommon

Author:Jim Whittaker