Quotes with half-mile

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  • Charles De Montesquieu Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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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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  • Bill Dedman Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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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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  • Buddy Rice Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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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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  • Ben Nicholas Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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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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  • 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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