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I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.
Lech Walesa
Half
More
Hour
Than
Cannot
Place
Stand
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
Lionel Barrymore
People
Will
Half
Other
Discovered
Afraid
Dying
Hollywood
However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.
Louis Farrakhan
Me
Words
Half
Islam
Nation
Believe
Those
Purpose
New
Come
Course
Around
However
Discredit
Fit
Up
Which
Sentence
Use
Used
Who
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Lucretia Mott
Education
Injustice
Learning
Women
School
Men
Girl
Half
Distinction
Charge
Only
Became
Boy
Same
While
Much
Teachers
Apparent
Services
Received
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Good
Man
Business
Half
Ought
Must
Only
Troublesome
He
Call
Understand
How
His
Hand
Artist
Artistic
Heavens
Artwork
Where
Order
Ask
Really
Things
Receive
Need
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child
You
Refreshed
Yourself
Battle
People
Half
Others
Say
Pleasure
Find
Allow
Never
Cheerful
Make
Gloomy
Effort
Anything
Gained
Why
Why Not
Presence
Honest
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
Mara Wilson
Allergic
Half
Athletic
Pretty
Finger
Only
Hospital
Had
Ankles
Like
Reactions
Go
Cautious
Dumb
Very
Trying
Did
Roll
After
While
Cut
Really
Injuries
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
Martin Seligman
Positive
Happiness
Good
Me
You
People
Cancer
Half
Think
Mood
Good Mood
Only
Divorced
Like
Smiling
Very
Depressed
Lower
Believed
Flourish
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Max Beerbohm
Eyes
Half
Lost
Hundred
Were
Fixed
Hearts
Many
Her
On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.
Michael Graves
Myself
Day
Struggle
First
Half
Clothes
Everything
Dressing
Given
Take
Hour
Hour And A Half
Also
Pile
Got
Proud
Up
Getting
Wheelchair
Little
Next
Chair
Socks
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.
Michael J. Fox
Work
People
Will
Half
Few
Research
Enjoy
Every
Kind
TV
Through
Thursday
Supporting
Hour
Make
Make A Difference
Advocacy
Privilege
Than
Get
Few People
Difference
Being
Bigger
Mean
Certainly
Actor
Lives
Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.
Michelle Obama
Life
World
Girl
My Life
Half
Society
Our
Resources
States
Those
Impact
Potential
Empowering
Because
Around
Educated
Providing
America
Being
Mankind
Then
Realizing
Skills
Full
Full Potential
Who
Washington
Population
United
United States
United States Of America
Million
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik
Life
War
Good
You
Natural
Progress
Strong
Half
Our
Jobs
Must
Only
High-Tech
Make
Deny
Human
Cannot
Human Element
Natural Life
Modesty
Element
Keep
Technological
Need
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Paddy Chayefsky
You
Age
World
Half
Own
Profit
Pass
Off
Your
Enlightenment
British
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
Pawan Kalyan
Agriculture
Half
Become
Dreamt
Never
Always
Owning
Wanted
Land
Acre
Farmer
Actor
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Peter S. Beagle
Great
Heroes
Half
Unnoticed
Sorrows
Greatness
Burdens
Goes
Need
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo
Passion
Half
Greater
Doing
Than
After
Psychology
Century
Ever
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Raymond Chandler
Natural
Challenge
Half
Say
Out
Take
Still
Effect
Movement
Leisure
Screenwriting
Little
Then
Much
Preserve
I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.
Red Adair
Time
Half
Nothing
Once
Permanent
Got
Up
Cut
Two
Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Richard Roeper
Christmas
Thanksgiving
Half
Beginning
Though
Week
Like
Look
Lot
Even
Away
You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!
Rita Ora
You
Wife
Half
Other
Married
Like
Know
Get
Get Married
Means
Your
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Life
You
Long
First
Half
Live
Longest
Years
May
Your
Twenty
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
Roland Gift
Better
Light
Long
Half
Dim
Lingering
Than
Burn
Brightly
I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.
Rosie Perez
Positive
Half
Think
Positive Person
Never
Pushing
Glass
Empty
Am
Person
Just
Forward
Keep
I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
Sarah McLachlan
Life
Matter
My Life
Half
Find
Ability
Something
Half Full
Always
Cup
Going
Full
The last thing you want is a group of senators who just lent you seven and a half billion dollars to sit back and go, 'Look at these jerks and how they're using taxpayer money.'
Sergio Marchionne
You
Money
Half
Sit
Taxpayer
Group
Back
Seven
Look
How
Go
Dollars
Senators
Just
Want
Lent
Taxpayer Money
Billion
Billion Dollars
Who
Using
Jerks
Thing
Last
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