Quotes with half-black

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  • Henry S. Haskins Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • George D. Prentice Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Helen Rowland Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Boris Kodjoe Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Bee Wilson Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Joe Karbo Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.
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  • Barbra Streisand Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Anne Stevenson Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Carolina Herrera Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Butch Trucks That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Angela Davis That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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