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• I've had contact with Arsenal and Chelsea, but it's a bit of a mess.

  Adel Taarabt

  Contact, Mess, Arsenal

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• It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Miracle, Cows, Asks

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.99, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Once the tires start to wear out the better car will prevail eventually. It might take a little bit of time, but eventually it will be the best. That’s why everyone is trying to make their car good on the long run.

  Joey Logano

  Running, Long, Car

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• Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

  Jad Abumrad

  Moving, Growing, Littles

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• If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

  Renato Canova

  Athlete, Want, Littles

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• We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

  Wess Stafford

  Determination, Children, Roots

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

  Paul Merton

  People, Made, Longevity

  "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

  Garry Shandling

  Girl, Selfish, Thinking

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• I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

  David Hockney

  Knows

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

  Phyllis Smith

  Shining, Want, Littles

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

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• I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

  Diane Cilento

  Sleep, Thinking, Rage

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• I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

  Diane Cilento

  Teacher, People, Taught

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• I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also

  Todd Barry

  Koalas, Kangaroos, Wombats

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• And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Guy, Acting, The End Of The Day

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• Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Thinking, Perfect, Hopeful

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• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Challenges, Want

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• I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

  Fisher Stevens

  Summer, Addiction, Bali

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Army, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

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• That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Cutting, Space

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• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  Chris Martin

  Birthday, Horse, Age

  "We're about to be fed to the lions" by Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  Orlando Bloom

  Appreciate, Trying, Needs

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• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sorry, Practice, Hopeful

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• I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dog, Uncles

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