#half

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. ↗

— Benny Green

#brown #could #dignity #four #had

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ↗

— William Greider

#bankrupt #bottom #economic #economic policy #economy

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#hockey #mental #ninety #other #percent

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#already #american #american people #bring #combat

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that. ↗

— John Grisham

#almost #because #convictions #country #every

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#continually #even #half #hour #long

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#came #first #four #got #half

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#any #baby #beck #call #compromise

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#being #canada #five #gotten #half

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#covered #dancing #david #doing #else