Quotes of: Half-hours Keyword

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

Cynthia Nixon

We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.

Christina Romer

I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.

Christy Leigh Stewart

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

Henry Rollins

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

James Avery

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Julie Burchill

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

Jennifer Brown

The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

Jason Calacanis

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

Joe Cocker

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

John Cornyn

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

David Remnick

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

David Tang

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

David Walton

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

E. T. Bell

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Bill Gates

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Bill Joy

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

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

Coco Austin

That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true." "That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.

Clive Barker

In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.

Gary Hopkins