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“My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.”

Half Dad My Dad Combination Italian Fiery

Author:Nico

“Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.”

Hate Half Hate Me Cuz Hoe Expletives

Author:Ja Rule

“Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.”

Ifs Men Mean Fighting Winning Half Mets Yesterday Idiotic Saruman

Author:Christopher Lee

“With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.”

Ifs Way Dies Literature Bits Half Sticks Math Extras Zero Crash Calculations Spelling English Literature Half Way

Author:Mark Haddon

“My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I dont like it is when Im off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.”

Feels Running Hours Half Mouths My Favorite Only Time Podcasting

Author:Bill Burr

“What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.”

Ifs Knows Play Running Half Player Team Basketball Tests Court Willpower Stamina Executioners

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.”

Heart Made Evil Speak Strong Stars Half Mines Divine Fine Fool Clay

Book:Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

“Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye,And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.”

Ifs Way Heart Kind Mean Littles Soul Eye Hate Song Sin Half Cold Tongue Gentle Fists Adultery Hearted Drunkenness Measuring Mirth Cold Heart

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.”

Needs Hard Purpose Order Winning Half Leader Focus Inspire Enthusiasm Mentality Hearted Half Hearted Hard To Trust Sporadic

Author:Sebastian Coe

“Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.”

Half Students Female Architecture Architect

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.”

Thinking May Sometimes Faces Half Smart

Book:The Thomas Sowell Reader

Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader

“I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.”

Firsts Said Two Hours Half Stage Havens Goes On Late Supposed To Be Concerts Fifth Festivals Half Hours Woodstock

Author:Richie Havens

“The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.”

Years Animal Half Millions Fashion Planets Eating Billions Consumption Over 50

Author:Stella McCartney

“I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.”

Feels Writing Half Overcoming Revulsion

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.”

Hurt Half Dog Gestures Being Hurt Leftovers

Author:Oleg Cassini

“Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?”

Trying Children School Half Boys Planets Dear Practicals Supposed To Be Lunch Drag Suggestions Soup Housewife Jamie Limes Lunacy Mozzarella Papaya

Author:Terry Wogan

“For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.”

Men Years Ideas Happens Half Doors Shots Convinced Expected Opening No Idea Bullets Elevators Opened Doors

Author:Dave Eggers

“The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.”

Humans Feelings Light Turns Evil Stars Human Beings Race Half Fiction Sky Morality Pure Disappear Human Race Void Particles Egotism Victorian Icy Good Evil

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.”

People Ifs Knows World Kind Littles Doe Enough Use Purpose Social Existence Half Alive Trouble This World Benefits Organization Weight Boat Our Society Justify Be Kind Dozen Pulling

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”

Humans Problem Running Given Chance Human Beings Half Disease Sitting Leap Rats No Fear Foul Loaded Have No Fear

Author:David Attenborough

“They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?”

“The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.”

Government Jobs Half Findings Labor Secretary Attorney Other Half Away From You Treasury Suing

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.”

Believe Half Bed Disciple American Politics Franklin

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.”

Way Loses Results Half Soccer Considering

Author:Fabio Capello

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Half Break Son Wall Battle Daughter Best Things Embarrassed Breaking Down Our Daughter Your Daughter Your Son

Author:Channing Tatum

“I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.”

People Thinking Half Opinion

Author:Mick Jagger

“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.”

Ifs Sometimes Stories Film Certain Hours Rooms Half Wise Cutting Scene Impact Stuck Remove Editors Sections Half Hours Slowing

Author:Alexander Payne

“The problem of dealing with the financial industry is being addressed today. You can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem.”

Want Giving Problem Interest Half Willing Industry Rate Financial Quantity Loan Interest Rate

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.”

People Half Democracy Crazy Shame Miserable Fascism

Author:Norman Mailer

“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.”

Writing Years Book Rooms Numbers Half Millions Novel Figures Couple Thousand Paper Computer Hundred Pens Occupation Solitary

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.”

People Knows Years Kind Two Strong Half Plans Smart Tough Decided Treats Intelligent Who You Are Two Years Wimps

Author:Stevie Nicks

“Half the people I look who are health food addicts look sickly to me. Let's start taxing health food. Somebody force a burger down some of these people's jaw because they look a little pale and wan to me.”

People Looks Littles Force Half Pale Addict Burgers Health Food

Author:Dennis Miller

“Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.”

People Home Dream Jobs Used Given Half Happened Happenings Let Me Luck Used To Be Retiring American Dream Good Luck Do It Yourself

Author:Suze Orman

“I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.”

Want Kind Littles Lasts Guy Bits Half Boys Missing Little Bit Notion Genes My Best Friend Mama Golfing Steak Mama's Boy

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.”

Knows Giving Real Lasts Speak Half Destiny Blood Thousand Mountain Swear Veins Folds Speak The Truth

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.”

Mind Heart Hours Half My Heart Farewell

Book:Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes

Source: Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes

“David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.”

Ifs Way Ideas Feelings Home Song My Own Half Successful Streets Stupid Dancing Bombs Being Successful Covered Vans Way Home Half Way Van Halen Playing Someone

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.”

Knows Two Able Asks Waiting Forget Half Saws Feet Son Beats Sitting Court Guitar My Son Never Forget Tall Acoustics Pajamas Tapping Acoustic Guitar Racquetball

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]”

Author:George Herbert

“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.”

“Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.”

Half Praying Reverence Half Heartedness

Author:Francis Chan

“I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.”

Wanted Actors Half Land Farmers Agriculture Acres

Author:Pawan Kalyan

“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.”

“The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?”

Decision Half Judging Agree Court International Supreme Divided Supreme Court Foreigners

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.”

Thinking Book Home Rooms Half Broken Personality Splits Fabric Pillow Ceilings Other Half Vintage Antiques Neon Shutters Bali Split Personality Jugs Turquoise Ceramics Aztec

Author:Poppy Delevingne

“My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

Writing Years Firsts Two Three Half Novel Rust Apprentice Half A Year

Author:Philipp Meyer

“My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.”

Feels Heart Half My Heart

Author:Roberto Alomar

“When you think of the "Exorcist" (1973) you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Looks Real Film Stuff Half Madness Soup Blair Peas Exorcist

Author:Matt Reeves