Quotes with half-point

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  • Kurt Vonnegut And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
    A Man Without a Country
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Cayley And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Bob Geldof And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Eliot And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alan K. Simpson Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Anna H. Shaw Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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  • André Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arsene Wenger As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford As a dancer, I've always checked my body constantly: 'Am I having a good day, or am I having a fat day?' I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else. I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Campbell Brown As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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