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I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.'
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
Anybody that was famous found their way to the Playboy Mansion. It was exciting for me. But I didn't know half of them!
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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.
It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.
I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.
My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.
You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.
I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.
I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.
I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.
One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.