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«The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.»
«The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.»
Author: Walter Cronkite (Journalist) | About: Life, Sadness | Keywords: half-hour
«May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead»
«Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'»
«It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.»
Author: Bill Clinton (President) | Keywords: half-hour
«I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.»
«If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community»
«It is better to busy one's self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless»
«The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.»