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“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“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

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.”

“I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.”

Looks Born Half Six Weight Pounds

Author:Red Skelton

“Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.”

People Art Lost Half Sea Members Six Ancient Storm Boat Native Destination Metaphysics Transmit Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."”

Years Said Waiting Half Boys Six Six Year Olds

Author:Fay Wray

“I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.”

Half Morning Week Six Fairs Routine Afternoon Interruptions Slugs Half Days

Author:Peter Mayle

“It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if the remainder do. And I think if they can learn something from us in terms of our system, and I think they have, they are learning more about how to unleash the potential of their citizenry to turn out more goods and services that their citizens want or that we want, I think that's terrific.”

“A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.”

Way Reading Loses Money Half Ready Friends Six Refuse Equality Dozen

Book:Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children

Source: Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children

“Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.”

Ifs Feels Night Hours Sleep Half Week Sweet Six Remains Seven Eight Spots No Sleep

Author:Sanjay Gupta

“I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.”

World Kind Half Six Tired Around The World Zone Dozen Twelve Iceland Himalayas Time Zones

Author:James Balog

“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.”

Years Long Remember Next Term Half Company Share Months Six Years Ago Fundamentals Sells Investing Long Term Shock Fund Dozen Elsewhere Employed Six Months Recommendations

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.”

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"”

Thinking Humor Funny Half Saws Six Commitment Sells Pops Mess Cents Packs Soda Six Packs Soda Pop

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“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

“Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.”

Years Believe Earth Half Century Thousand Six Years Ago Insight Neighbor Despite Cosmos Thousand Years Antiquity Glue Sumerians

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.”

Years Film Walks Half Six Comfortable Cameras Grateful Best Things Half A Year Creeks Film Set

Author:Michelle Williams

“There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might make that are sort of on assignment for television that turn around in three to six months. Then the margin can be much be better for you because you're not spending three-and-a-half years on it. So I think if you're doing documentary films, that's sort of the way to look at it.”

“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.”

Persons Different Hard Moving Common Half Responsibility Situation Cutting Air Right Now Six China Usa Sand Target Tails Feathers Ostriches

Author:Jay Inslee

“During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine, Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old together.”

“It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.”

People Want Half Quality Love You Six Determined Theatre Bother Reviews Dozen Approval Remarks Loathe Dickens Treasured Bad Reviews

Author:Robert Ludlum

“For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.”

“What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.”

“Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.”

Half Six Hundred League Valleys Blind Side Valley Of Death

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.”

Stuff Hours Half Plans Six Clean Seven Meals Sugar

Author:Boris Kodjoe

“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.”

Two Home School Night Hours Half Practice Morning Four Grew Bed Ten Six Grew Up Seven Guitar Eight Nine Clock Afternoon Dedication Fifteen Fourteen

Author:Joe Pass

“There's a one in six billion chance you're gonna find your soul mate. But, maybe, your perfect soul mate is actually three or four half perfect people. How far are you willing to go to actually find that perfect somebody... ies. If you're not willing to make a group of people your soul mate then you'd better plan on being alone. You'll always have television.”

People Ifs Soul Three Chance Perfect Half Four Plans Groups Television Willing Six Billions Your Soul Mates Soul Mate

Author:Christopher Titus

“The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?”

People Today Asks Half Planets Six Species Billions Adaptation Homo Sapiens Right Questions

Author:Donald Johanson

“At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.”

Two Three Stuff Hours Half Practice Week Months Right Now Six Training Legs Beach Sand Three Times Half Hours Pilates Displacement

Author:Kerri Walsh

“You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Wells Body White Half Know How Source Six Your Body Cups Eggs Plus Eighteen Other Half Protein Fiber Lentils

Author:Kathy Freston

“I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.”

Writing Years Half Changed Six Years Ago Landscape Half A Year

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.”

Thinking Writing Years Play Half Months Six Six Months

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.”

“I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.”

Use Shows Hands Deals Half Six Sitting Dollars Careful Billions Expecting Now And Then Mars October

Author:Warren Buffett

“It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Mean Long Running Enjoy Half Millions This World Six Property Be Good Billions Long Runs Terrific

Author:Warren Buffett

“I got the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.”

Jobs Half Months Ocean Six Projects Seven Calm Phenomenon Six Months Rehearsal Hamilton

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.”

Years I Can Problem Lasts Courses President Rooms Half Opinion Week Trump Six Last Year No Problem

Author:John Lewis

“I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.”

Ifs Thinking Years Looks Littles States Enough Three Left Levels Mistake Half Five Six Average Criminals Violent Repeats Five Years Murderer Muggers

Author:Charles Schumer

“In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.”

Knows Way Years Said Different Age School America Three Language Half Four Six Smart Tests Moved Grades Smarter They Said Schooling Very Smart Jamaica

Author:Grace Jones

“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.”

“I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.”

Half Week Six Radiation

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.”

Two Whole Body Energy Hours Half Months Six Theater Release Six Months Stamina Half Hours

Author:Alan Rickman

“I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.”

Play Fall Half Six Broke Noses Dough Avocados

Author:Arthur Smith

“I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.”

Writing Long Stills Lines Half Scene Six

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.”

Knows Years Long Shows Hours Half Audience Five Four Week Six Comfortable Scripts Locals Los Angeles Four Years Long Ago Half Hours Talk Shows

Author:Betty White

“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”

People Ifs World Looks Today Three Half Six Shame Financial Population Billions Finance Gambling Globes Loan Financial System

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”

“Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!”

Trying I Can Book Ends Helping Happens Age Remember Sound Half Steps Five Blood Six Okay Skins Ads Nurse Harry Potter Potters Casual Steps Forward Diana Nicole Trainees Shh

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”

Book Lying Half Bed Six

Book:The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

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