Quotes with half-point

Quotes 261 till 280 of 790.

  • Adam Clayton I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Burt Rutan I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Angela Merkel I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Adam Faith I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
    Marcel Marceau
    French artist (1923 - 2007)
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  • William Shakespeare I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, What's wrong? Nothing. Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile. Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Warren Mitchell I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
    in April 2010
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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