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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.