Quotes with half-brother

Quotes 301 till 320 of 441.

  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Carmen Busquets So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Lord George Byron So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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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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  • Barrett Foa Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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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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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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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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  • Beau Bridges Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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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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  • 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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