We’re the first not-white family to ever live in the governor’s mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I’m the only white guy in the house.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency – half tiger, half poet.
I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn’t be right. It wouldn’t be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.
Bewitched is half of everything.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that’s half the battle.
Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
I used to work in Macon, Georgia and Spartanburg, South Carolina where the studio was about half the size of your living room.
But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I’ve been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Campaigns are crazy things. They’re half startup, half enterprise.
We’ve seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
Women hold up half the sky.
In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.
If you look at comparative figures, the last two episodes of ‘Six Wives of Henry VIII’ were watched by 4m. Graham Norton, who is very funny, gets 3m. Johnny Vaughan’s comedy, which I have never seen but people say isn’t very good, got less than half the viewers of ‘Six Wives.’
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It’s very, very dangerous. You always knew you were living in danger. You were on your hands and knees half the day.
I’m half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house – so that’s like a very Latin staple. It’s just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can’t wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman’s family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
You could write your fingers off for 25 years… and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.
We have three billion people, half the world’s population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
Half my life is an act of revision.
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.
I grew up in Vancouver, man. That’s where more than half of my style comes from.
I am thankful that Brooklyn, a community of more than 2.6 million people of which nearly half speak a language other than English at home, stands as a shining example of how immigration and diversity have made us a safer and stronger place to live, work, and experience the American dream.
My first reaction when I watched Les Miserables was, ‘Wow, my hair looks good!’ They put half a wig in, and I was always kinda worried it was gonna make my head look twice as big!
Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.
Half the time I feel like I’m appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I’m an upper.
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot – like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.
When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
I don’t care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did ‘Saala Khadoos,’ being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
Music is half the film.
When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.
Because I enjoy training, obviously what comes with that is if you haven’t been training, or you’re not feeling like you’re in great shape, then the last thing you want to do, like anyone, is to be seen by millions half naked.
Never hate a song that’s sold a half million copies.
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I’m half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
When I got into the second half of ‘Dragon Ball,’ I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.
