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“The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.”

Years Lasts Courses Half Economy Right Now Cycles Locked Last Time Presidency Weathered

Author:David Talbot

“Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.”

People Writing Believe Character Half China Chinese Fewer Strokes Chairman Mao Chairman Mao

Author:David Tang

“The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.”

Wells Government Jobs Half Responsible Administration Reports Small Business Employers New Job Business Administration

Author:Ellen Tauscher

“It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Jobs Lasts Three Half Balance Doctors Patient Administration Romney Half A Year Over 50

Author:Jim Talent

“I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.”

Said Wanted Jobs Half Contracts They Said

Author:John Tesh

“It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.”

Years Wells Persons Stills Different Father Easy Half Boys Four

Author:Alan Vega

“We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.”

Has Beens Growth Rooms Half Cost Consumers Boards Percentages Tuition Restraining Cost Of Education

Author:Charles M. Vest

“I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.”

Years Firsts Half Cents

Author:Jack Vance

“Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.”

Trying Faces Half Straight Face

Author:Rutina Wesley

“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

Trying Children Two Wanted Actors Bits Half Roles Cry Mom My Mom Convinced Nervous Ran Cute Auditions Skeptical Interrupted Bossy Child Actors

Author:Mae Whitman

“I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.”

Ifs Hours Half Scripts Sitcom Half Hours

Author:Sela Ward

“Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.”

Country Care Half Support Blood Example Medical Reform Health Care Merit Expenses Bankruptcy Health Care Reform

Author:Thomas Frank

“Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism”

Inspirational Choices Half Seeing Empty Glasses Positivity Optimistic Pessimism Righteous Lenses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.”

Giving Persons Half Lust Spouse License Other Half

Author:Jess C Scott

“I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Whole Care Hours Half Records Sorry Don't Care I Don't Care I'm Sorry Preference Personal Preferences

Author:Tommy Lee

“I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.”

Thinking Felt Half Boys Cry Inspire Actresses Yearning Swank Boys Don't Cry

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.”

Half Engines Traffic Blogs Search Engine

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.”

World Giving Writing Made Real Half Decades Real World

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“Half the truth is often a great lie.”

Life Truth Lying Half Liberty Truth Is Half Truth

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.”

Night Hours My Own Half

Author:St. Vincent

“I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.”

Ifs Self Shows Might Half Crazy Fashion College Tough Cameras Finished Rely Sense Of Self Scrutiny Vortex Fashion Show

Author:Allison Williams

“I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.”

Half Nbc

Author:Jeff Zucker

“Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.”

Country Certain House Cities Half Areas Thirds Including Average Zero Diverse Housing Vegas Las Vegas Recessions Inauguration Orlando Ground Zero Great Recession House Prices

Author:Mark Zandi

“It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.”

Hard Love Is Half Company Products Models Billions One Love Downloads Business Models

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

Ifs Men Life Wish Half Trouble Wishful Thinking

Book:Poor Richard Day by Day

Source: Poor Richard Day by Day

“If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.”

Ifs Firsts Half Germany Affirmation Positive Affirmations

Author:Milton Jones

“Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now.”

Guy Half Fronts Right Now Target

Author:Maurice Jones-Drew

“My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East and so you know that's a grind out game.”

Knows Stills Shows Bigs Running Games Half Court East Coaches Grind Ucla

Author:Shabazz Muhammad

“I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.”

Looks Sides Half Glasses Bright Side Half Full

Author:Alli Simpson

“My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.”

Three Half Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Quarters Lebanese

Author:Tom Shadyac

“The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.”

Years Interest Half Amount Equal Spring Medicine Patient Spoken Word

Author:William Carlos Williams

“I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.”

Language Half Wise Empty Glasses Half Empty

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.”

Thinking Men Feels Trying Wells Guy Half Losing Balls Court Feel Good I Feel Good Stripping

Author:Kevin Durant

“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.”

Ifs Humans Looks Reality Eye Remember Human Beings Forget Half Happened Normal Bottom Imaginary Admirable Imaginary Life

Book:Polgara the Sorceress

Source: Polgara the Sorceress

“Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.”

Knows Half Really Weird

Book:The Maze Runner Trilogy

Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy

“You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.”

“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.”

Men World Feels Whole Pain Half Misery Pity Agony Yards Belly Roaring Beside You

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Half Revolution Fine Men And Women Feminist Oppressed Other Half Hardcore

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.”

Men Might Half Duty Solutions Officers Admission

Book:The Final Columns of Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

Source: The Final Columns of Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.”

Ifs Dream Hours Sleep Half Gun Horrible Firing Helicopters

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Women hold up the other half of the sky.”

Half Sky Other Half Acts Of Charity

Book:Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

“May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.”

People May Eye Half Silence Feet Take Me

Book:Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

“People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.”

People Thinking Rooms Half Strange Hotel Glamorous Hotel Rooms Being Famous Suitcases

Author:Ja Rule

“In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”

Trying Looks Stills Interesting Half Class Saws Middle Fashion Hair Ordinary Ridiculous Radical Dumb Middle Class Eighty Always Believe Icons Retrospect Benign Fashion Icon

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”

Way Believe I Believe Half Expression Battle Findings

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real School Half Draws Prepared Real Life Schooling Art School

Author:Dave Gibbons

“The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.”

Way Stills Enough White Perfect Half Minutes Arms Bread Enjoyed Brown Thick Sandwiches Sauce Wrists Half Way Licking Trickle Down White Bread

Author:Howard Jacobson

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