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“To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.”

“You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.”

Knows House Hours Half Rich Property Half Hours

“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.”

Thinking Needs Kind School Guy Stuff Half Opinion Laughing Minutes Information Ten Percent High School Access Bars Dumb Idiot Make Sense Loud Realising Dumb Guy Informed Opinions

Author:Bill Burr

“At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.”

Littles Home Three House Attention Half Dog Missing Blue Victoria Lucy Terriers Three Dog

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.”

Ifs Years Country Grows Poor Half Talking Moral Percent Female Argument Population Arguing Finance Faster Ministers Harness Poor Countries

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.”

Knows Feels Pleasure Half Guilty Popcorn Guilty Pleasure

Author:Saul Williams

“A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.”

People Knows Able Lost Hours Half Know How Jokes Constant Hopeless Camps Ongoing

Author:Tim Cahill

“Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!”

Doe Humor Funny Guy Fall Half Saws Projects Boxes Entertainment Tricks Desperate Hats This Guy Magician Rabbits

Author:Chris Rock

“You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!”

Knows Important Humor Funny Decision Half Strange Couple Members Lonely Intelligent Sane Organisms Strange Things

Author:Dylan Moran

“I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.”

Humor Funny Hours Behinds Half Doors Lovely Hotel Staying Sheets Dressings Robes Suitcases Fluffy

Author:Frank Carson

“It's not all about love. That's half of it... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'”

Men Want Kind Moments Dream Humor Funny Dies Half Sick Mirrors Fats Compromise Someday That Moment Other Half Looking In The Mirror

Author:Marc Maron

“My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.”

Humor Funny Half Dad Exciting My Dad Manic Depressive

Author:Marc Maron

“Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.”

Humor School Funny Hours Half Boys Watches Wife Minutes Stupid Daughter My Wife My Daughter Public School Bargains

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.”

Knows I Can Humor Funny Half Magic Members Very Good Circles Tricks

Author:Tim Vine

“I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt. I hated being one half of a couple, without understanding that it wasn't the husband or the man I hated, it was situation, the identity.”

Knows Men Firsts Felt Understanding Half Situation Identity He Man Couple Husband Hated Uncomfortable One Half

Author:Vivian Gornick

“I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.”

Play Three Hours Emotion Half Pieces Minutes Depth Range Always Believe Half Hours

Author:Anne Akiko Meyers

“When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."”

World Way Should Wells Wanted Moving Young House Parent Half Around The World Staying Mates Oh Well Half Way

Author:Gregg Sulkin

“I saw a guy wearing a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet and a Lance Armstrong bracelet, and he went up to this blind kid and rubbed his eyes, and the kid could see. But he wasn't used to the light, 'cause it was bright, and he walked into traffic and was killed instantly. Okay, the people that are laughing right now? I'm gonna call you guys half-full. Because you're focusing on the important part of the story: the bracelets are working.”

People Important Stories Humor Light Eye Kids Funny Used Guy Jesus Causes Half Laughing Saws Right Now Okay Blind His Eyes Traffic Armstrong Half Full Bracelet

Author:Daniel Tosh

“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.”

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Author:Tom Johnson

“If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you've never juiced vegetables, start. If you've never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness.”

“I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.”

Believe I Believe Healing Half Method Alternatives Temporary Half Measures

Author:Andrew Saul

“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.”

Ifs Matter Guy Hours Half Minutes Stupid Ten Accidents Clever Wheels Half Hours Very Clever Stupid Guy

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.”

“Cinema has changed the world. If you go to the beginning of the cinema, you can see that the world started meeting other worlds. It was extraordinary. We saw how other people were living and thinking. How they were sad or happy. We also saw the body - naked or half-naked people, which was prohibited everywhere by religions. This was extremely important.”

People Ifs Thinking World Important Body Half Saws Changed Meetings Extraordinary Naked Cinema Other Worlds

Author:Costa-Gavras

“I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them from doing that. We're so restricted because of our long season. We have a one-and-a-half-month period where we get to do what we want - that's shorter than any other sport. It makes it tough, for sure.”

Want Long I Can Sports Half Months Periods Tough Seasons Drivers Racing

Author:Denny Hamlin

“I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.”

World Half Heard Champion Boxing Olympics Muhammad Boxers World Champions Boxing Matches

Author:Jeff Fenech

“Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people."”

People Littles Doe I Can Two Whole Bigs Funny Jobs Guy Half Hell Clear Comedy Feet Higher Bottles This Guy Pills Pharmacist

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.”

Motivational Film Half Indian Judgement Awards Competence Evaluate

Author:Satyajit Ray

“What helped me a lot is the fact that I have a very short neck. If I had a neck like a stack of dimes, you can bet I couldn't take a good shot. But the fact that I had a short neck and worked on it a lot (as opposed to most fighters who don't work on their neck muscles) definitely helped. I would stand on my head against a wall and move my head back and forth, side to side, for half an hour or so while talking on the phone.”

Ifs Facts Moving Sides Hours Half Talking Wall Shots Phones Fighter Muscles Necks Back And Forth Dimes Talking On The Phone

Author:George Chuvalo

“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.”

“The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.”

World Facts Half Resources Responsible Environmental Population Pollution Fractions Affluence Affluent World Population Environmental Pollution

Author:Barry Commoner

“On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.”

House Half Findings Cat Gypsy Vagabonds

Author:Jason Reeves

“I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.”

Play Wanted Half Growing Football Basketball Baseball Balls

Author:Moses Malone

“In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.”

Long Two Running Together Next Hours Race Half Team Car Members Competition Warm Next Day Session Two Days Practise Team Member

Author:Liz Halliday

“By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.”

People Thinking Jobs Half Judging Like You Leaving Definitions Unhappy Courtroom Good Judges People Leaving

Author:Steven Pacey

“I decided to go to the cinema school because I thought it was a new sort of media. Nowadays, it's not anymore, but in the '50s, cinema had a half century of age. Today it's more than one century. I thought it was a new media, a new way of telling stories.”

Way Stories Age Today School Half Century Media Decided Cinema New Ways Telling Stories New Media

Author:Costa-Gavras

“I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.”

Years Art Culture Reading House Half Absence Berlin

Author:Lea Seydoux

“I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.”

Thinking Facts Certain Half Genuine Chemistry Bizarre Mechanic Jamie Playing Around

Author:Adam Savage

“The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.”

People Giving Reality Artist Can Do Hours Answers Existence Half Satisfying

Author:Woody Allen

“Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.”

Way Guy Girl Black Half Talking Kings Naked Unusual 80s Black Guys

Author:Robyn

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.”

Growth Wealth Half Generations Suicide Population Dues Fallen Lacking Rapids Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Population Growth Rapid Growth

Author:Keith Henson

“My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.”

Writing Book Whole Individual Levels Half Happened Series Outlines Macro

Author:Daniel Handler

“Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.”

Half Percent Plastic

Author:Jason Wu

“A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.”

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Author:Ovid

“If I had to rate myself between one and 10? If you're a gingerist and like ginger guys, I guess I'm a seven, with make-up on maybe an eight. If you're not a gingerist, I'm probably a six, six and a half.”

Ifs Guy Half Six Seven Rate Eight Ginger

Author:Jason Flemyng

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”

Knows Life Reality Life Is Half Inspirational Life This Life Live Life Meaning Of Life Bad Ass Short Life Old Life Metaphors Of Life

Book:The remains of ... George Herbert

Source: The remains of ... George Herbert

“It's so technical. It's nothing personal. You're not fighting really, you're missing each other by a half of foot at least, ideally more and you get a few knocks and bruises. But with the kissing, you do kiss someone. Its lips on lips.”

Fighting Half Feet Missing Kissing Lips Bruises Kissing You Missing Each Other

Author:Colin Farrell

“You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know?”

Knows Kind Stills Reason Reality Spiritual Guy Dies Can Do Half Refuse Metaphysical This Guy

Author:Josh Brolin

“Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.”

People Two Together Language Hours Half Society Communication Superiors Emerging

Author:Lord Chesterfield

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