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• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  Octavio Paz

  Time, Time Management, Dies

  "Cuento de los Jardines" (1968)

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• Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.

  Richard Hamming

  Change, Science, Important

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.

  Brandi Carlile

  Believe, Writing, Vintage

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

  Sean Lennon

  Music, Inspiration, Writing

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• It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

  Neil Lennon

  Dark, Light, Knowing

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• Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

  Julie Delpy

  Depression, Psycho, Mental Illness

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• Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

  Janet C. Long

  Depression, Crazy, Littles

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Agency, Looks

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• When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Smile, Order, Faces

  1942 Pilote de guerre.

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• It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

  George Sand

  Jealous, Doubt, The End Of The Day

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.17

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• For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Attitude

  "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV".

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• You have to make a bet one way or another. We believe that overall demand is going to continue to grow, and its absolutely being fueled by the Internet. If anything, we're just building a little bit ahead of the curve. There's clearly a curve toward growth, and the question is 'How do you intercept that?' We've decided to intercept it as aggressively as possible.

  Paul Otellini

  Believe, Curves, Growth

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• I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.

  Sheila Heti

  Christian, Brother, Jesus

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• I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.

  Rameet Chawla

  Perfect, Littles, Tests

  "Transcript: 020: Rameet Chawla: Tech Founder". "Prologue Profiles" with Dan Feld, prologueprofiles.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

  Christopher A. Sims

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

  Anne Ursu

  Giving, World, Littles

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• I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Phones, People, Trying

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• I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  School, Loner, Geek

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  Felicia Day

  Heart, Mean, Rejection

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Skeptic, Believer

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• I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Use, Facts, Los Angeles

  The Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

  Chris Colfer

  Mom, Writing, Kids

  "Chris Colfer Shipping 'Bits Of My Soul' With His Novel". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

  Christina Milian

  Cowboy, Texas, Littles

  "Christina Milian talks Be Cool!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 24, 2005.

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• At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

  Gerard Butler

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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