Quotes with half-there

Quotes 5101 till 5120 of 5709.

  • Buzz Aldrin We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • William Shakespeare We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Burt Rutan We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • A. J. McLean We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Ashleigh Banfield We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Canadian-American journalist (1967 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Alain de Botton We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Thomas J. Peters We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Bartlett Sher We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Brit Hume We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Mark Twain We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barry McCaffrey We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Campbell Newman We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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