Quotes with half-a-crown

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Woollcott Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • Ezra Pound Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Marquis de Sade Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Millepied Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • William Shakespeare My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Brenda Song My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Bill Burr My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bernard Bailyn Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 203
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • John Ray Never meet trouble half-way.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Sydney Smith Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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